Liberty In Peril

formerly,

The Llano Ledger

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

Think the jackbooted bastards
in ICE are not egregiously out of control? CBS News reports:

"A transgender migrant
woman who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in
May was beaten and denied proper medical treatment, according to the results
of an independent autopsy and lawyers for her family. The private forensic
pathologist who conducted the second autopsy at the behest of the family
of Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez concluded the 33-year-old from Honduras
likely died May 25 of "severe complications of dehydration," complicated
by HIV, after she was transferred to the hospital from ICE's Cibola County
Correctional Center in New Mexico. The Transgender Law Center, a civil
rights legal group representing Hernandez's family, says Hernandez was
repeatedly denied access to medical care when she complained of vomiting
and diarrhea, and was only able to see a doctor after suffering the symptoms
for days. "According to observations of other detainees who were with Ms.
Hernandez Rodriguez, the diarrhea and vomiting episodes persisted over
multiple days with no medical evaluation or treatment, until she was gravely
ill," the autopsy says."

Gets worse. Get
this:

"The independent autopsy
also uncovered "evidence of physical abuse," with deep bruising on the
left and right sides of her chest, extending to her back, "indicative of
blows, and/or kicks, and possible strikes with [a] blunt object." Her body
also had deep soft tissue bruising on her wrists "typical of handcuff injuries."
The autopsy says the bruising wasn't visible externally. "She came to the
U.S. seeking protection, and instead was met with torture," Egyes said."

Not surprisingly, the
jackbooted bastards in ICE deny all:

"ICE denies that Hernandez
was abused while in their custody. In a statement, the agency said
Hernandez was admitted on May 17 to Cibola General Hospital with symptoms
of pneumonia, dehydration and complications associated with untreated HIV
before her death. "ICE takes very seriously the health, safety and welfare
of those in our care, including those who come into ICE custody with prior
medical conditions or who have never before received appropriate medical
care," an ICE spokesperson said in a statement. "Any death that happens
in ICE custody is a cause for concern, and the agency will continue its
full review of this case according to standard protocols."

Jesus Christ. Congenital
liars. ... Just like their fuhrer in the Oval Office.

"The Transgender Law Center
says Hernandez was an asylum seeker fleeing persecution in Honduras and
hoped to help her family build a better life. Lynly Egyes, the Transgender
Law Center's director of litigation, called Hernandez's death "preventable."
In a statement released through the Transgender Law Center, Hernandez's
sisters in Honduras said her death has been "extremely painful" for her
family. They said Hernandez had dreams of opening up a beauty salon in
the U.S. to help them. They said she fled Honduras because transgender
people there face discrimination. "It's difficult to accept that she was
taken from us because of negligence, because of not giving her support
and medication that she needed, because they treated her like an animal,"
the statement said. "It's not fair. It's not fair that she fled Honduras
looking for a better life and instead she was murdered. Now all we have
left with is the hope that we can see justice for her."

There is no justice in
a de facto fascist police-state, quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's
Fourth
Reich. ... Right, Sheriff?

"Many questions remain
about what happened to Hernandez in the days leading up to her death, according
to attorney R. Andrew Free, who is also representing her family. ICE hasn't
released what's known as a detainee death review — an internal investigation
required anytime someone dies in ICE custody — nor the results of the official
autopsy conducted by the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator.
A request from CBS News for a copy of that autopsy report is pending, and
Free said he also has yet to see the initial autopsy."

Incredible, isn't it.
Raw nazism.

"But Free said he's been
able to piece together some of what apparently happened in Hernandez's
last days based on interviews with more than a dozen other transgender
migrant women with whom Hernandez traveled to the U.S. Free said Hernandez
arrived with a migrant caravan at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego
on May 9, where ICE said she applied for admission to the U.S. She was
held in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody for several days and
spent time in the "hieleras," which migrants have described as unsafe and
overcrowded "ice boxes." Hernandez was apparently already ill because she
was admitted briefly to a hospital, Free said, before she was transferred
back into CBP custody. On May 13, Hernandez entered ICE custody in San
Diego, and she was transferred two days later to an ICE facility in El
Paso, according to ICE. She arrived May 16 at the Cibola County Correctional
Center in Milan, New Mexico, which houses a specialized unit for transgender
women."

Gets worse:

"Before she arrived at
Cibola, Hernandez apparently traveled through several states via bus and
plane with other detained transgender women who were being transferred
to the facility, said Free, citing interviews with those women. The women
said Hernandez's condition deteriorated and she became weaker while in
transit. They said she was vomiting and having diarrhea, but she was denied
medical care, handcuffed, wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom and wasn't
given enough water. Other detainees asked for water for her, Free said.
CoreCivic, which operates the facility for ICE, said in a statement that
Hernandez was only at the Cibola facility for about 12 hours before she
was transferred to a hospital. ICE said she was admitted to Cibola General
Hospital and later airlifted to Lovelace Medical Center, where she remained
in intensive care until she died on May 25. Staff there listed her preliminary
cause of death as cardiac arrest, according to ICE."

Most interesting, get
this:

"Though the timeline remains
unclear, Free said he believes Hernandez was beaten while she was at Cibola,
because the women interviewed said they believed they would have seen it
had she been abused while they were all detained together, and there was
no indication she was abused while in the hospital.

"Free and the Transgender
Law Center this week filed a notice of wrongful death tort claim in New
Mexico, the first step in filing a lawsuit in the case."

No end to it.

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

12-7-18

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

"A coalition of immigrant
rights groups Monday sued on behalf of a US citizen they allege was illegally
detained and almost deported because of an ICE request. The federal complaint
says authorities in Monroe County, Florida ignored Peter Brown's repeated
statements that he was a US citizen and continued to hold him in response
to a detention request from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement even
after a judge had ordered his release. "Despite his repeated protests to
multiple jail officers, his offer to produce proof, and the jail's own
records, the Sheriff's Office held Mr. Brown so that ICE could deport him
to Jamaica — a country where he has never lived and knows no one," the
lawsuit says."

Get this:

"The Sheriff's Office
ignored all the indications that it was illegally detaining Mr. Brown.
It did nothing to investigate his citizenship. It did not contact ICE to
pass along this urgent information, or ask for a review of Mr. Brown's
files. It did not seek any further information from Mr. Brown or anyone
else. It simply held Mr. Brown, in violation of his constitutional rights
and after he was entitled to release under state law, so that he could
be picked up by ICE and deported from the country." Brown, according to
the lawsuit, was born in Philadelphia and had only visited Jamaica once
for a day on a cruise. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office and ICE did not
immediately respond to requests for comment."

What the f--k could
these criminal jackbooted bastards say? ... Right, Sheriff?

"It's shocking and not
right that somebody can lose their human rights and have all dignity stripped
away simply because someone delivers a piece of paper or signs a form,"
Brown said in a statement released by the American Civil Liberties Union,
one of the organizations representing him."

"Brown was detained in
April after turning himself in for a probation violation, then eventually
transferred from a local jail to the Krome immigrant detention center in
Miami, the lawsuit says. He was released from ICE custody after a friend
sent a copy of his birth certificate to ICE, according to the suit. "After
confirming that Mr. Brown was a U.S. citizen, ICE hastily arranged for
his release from Krome. Before he left, they confiscated all the documents
they had given him regarding his impending deportation," the lawsuit says."

ICE remains determinedly,
egregiously out of control. No hope, no chance of desperately needed
change. Too jackbooted nazi. Consequently, needs to be abolished.

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

12-7-18

Trump stonewalls the Senate.
NPR reports:

"Angry senators on Wednesday
[11-28-18]
accused the Trump administration of stonewalling in an effort to avoid
linking Saudi Arabia's crown prince to the killing of journalist Jamal
Khashoggi. In a rare rebuke of the White House, even Republicans complained
they weren't getting the full story. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., threatened
to withhold key votes until he gets the answers he is looking for. Lawmakers
also vented their frustration during a procedural vote on Yemen. The complaints
started with the personnel involved. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis delivered a closed-door briefing to senators
on Wednesday, but CIA Director Gina Haspel was conspicuously absent on
Capitol Hill. Haspel traveled to Turkey as part of the information-gathering
process and is said to have heard an audio recording that depicts Khashoggi's
death. Her absence from the Senate left Pompeo and Mattis to echo the more
skeptical interpretation Trump has taken of the CIA's assessment."

No more than a goddamned
whitewash:

"There is no direct reporting
connecting the crown prince to the order to murder Jamal Khashoggi," Pompeo
told reporters. "That's all I can say in an unclassified setting." Mattis
agreed there is no "smoking gun" to link the crown prince, who is also
known as MBS, to Khashoggi's Oct. 2 killing at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul."

The Senators would have
none of it.

"Several senators were
not convinced. "I don't think there's anybody in that room that doesn't
believe he was responsible for it," said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."

A Republican.
LOL.

"It's outrageous that
the Senate can be stonewalled from hearing from the CIA director," added
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the committee's top Democrat."

No kidding. Even
rattled the cage of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham:

"Graham, typically a reliable
supporter of the president's, said he would have trouble voting for a must-pass
spending bill or other legislation until he hears from the CIA director.
"Anything you need me for, to get out of town, I ain't doing it," Graham
threatened. "I'm not going to be denied the ability to be briefed by the
CIA, that we have oversight of, about whether or not their assessment supports
my belief that this could not have happened without MBS knowing."

You think?

"The senators' frustration
spilled over into a procedural vote Wednesday on a resolution to end U.S.
support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Senators voted 63-37 to advance
the measure. A final vote on the resolution is not expected before next
week. Pompeo warned that withdrawing American support from the war could
undermine U.S. efforts to broker a cease-fire.

"But senators were in
no mood to back down. "The Khashoggi incident has also gotten a lot of
people's attention," said Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a co-sponsor of the resolution
to end support for the war. He wondered why, after the killing, the U.S.
should "so blindly and so willingly" join the Saudis in their war in Yemen.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., agreed with that sentiment. "We are not going
to be continuing to be part of that humanitarian disaster," Sanders said.
"We are ending our participation in that horrific war."

If Congress fails to cut
off funding, that will likely not happen.

The Washington Post
reports:

"The Senate on Wednesday
[11-28-18]
advanced a resolution seeking to end U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia’s
war in Yemen, delivering a sharp rebuke of the Saudi crown prince and President
Trump’s decision to defend him amid the fallout over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s
killing. The 63-to-37 vote means the resolution can be considered by the
full Senate, but it does not officially launch debate on the matter. That
will happen next week, provided the Senate passes a second procedural vote
— which seems likely, senators said, unless the Trump administration takes
definitive steps to hold Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman accountable
for Khashoggi’s murder.

"Wednesday’s vote marks
the first time a majority of senators have ignored the warnings of both
party’s leaders and the president to formally endorse calls for limiting
U.S. military aid to Saudi Arabia. It is a signal that Republicans and
Democrats are done making excuses for the kingdom’s human rights abuses,
lawmakers said."

The Washington Post
reports:

"CIA Director Gina Haspel
appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to brief key senators on the agency’s
assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman probably ordered
the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Haspel had faced mounting pressure
to speak to lawmakers and more fully explain the CIA’s findings, which
President Trump has said don’t conclusively show that Mohammed was involved
in the assassination. Haspel was noticeably absent last week from an all-senators
briefing with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis. Lawmakers complained that the Trump administration was depriving
Congress of key information about the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington
Post contributing columnist, by refusing to order Haspel to go to the Hill
and explain the CIA’s assessment. The CIA has concluded that Mohammed probably
ordered the killing, based in part on intercepted communications involving
him and a key aide, who is alleged to have overseen the team that killed
the journalist inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October, according
to people familiar with the matter. The spy agency also analyzed other
intercepted communications, listened to audio provided by Turkey from inside
the consulate, and assessed that an audacious operation that involved killing
a Saudi citizen in a foreign country could not have been executed without
the crown prince’s knowledge, people familiar with the CIA’s conclusions
said."

Senators are not happy
campers. Get this:

"Haspel will speak only
to Senate leaders and the heads of national security committees with an
interest in Saudi policy regarding Yemen and the intelligence surrounding
Khashoggi’s killing, according to multiple people familiar with the plans.
Bipartisan leaders from the Foreign Relations Committee, the Armed Services
Committee, the Intelligence Committee, and the Appropriations subcommittees
that fund the State and Defense departments are expected to be included.
Some rank-and-file senators were furious that they were excluded from the
briefing. “I can’t even ask to be included in it because I didn’t know
it was going to happen, except for reading about it in the media. That’s
not the way it should be. She should have come and testified in front of
all senators,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said. “If you have some senators
who are more equal than others, that is not democratic representation.”

That's right. No
question. You bastards do have a solution, however.
Cut off all funding and support for the Saudi war in Yemen. Stick
it to your nazi fuhrer in the Oval Office. No matter what,
it's an outrageously unjust war where Saudis are deliberately targeting
civilians:

"Haspel’s briefing may
placate some of those senators. But it is not expected to deter Senate
Democrats — or the handful of Republicans who say Saudi Arabia should be
rebuked — from supporting the Yemen resolution beyond its next step, a
vote expected to take place in the next few days."

What the hell are you
waiting for? Hell to freeze over?

CBS News reports:

"After CIA director Gina
Haspel briefed a handful of senators on Tuesday about U.S. intelligence
related to the murder of dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi, lawmakers said
they were even more confident that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
was directly involved in the brutal assassination. "There's not a smoking
gun — there's a smoking saw," Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters
after the classified meeting. "I went into the briefing believing it was
virtually impossible for an operation like this to be carried out without
the crown prince's knowledge," Graham added. "I left the briefing with
high confidence that my initial assessment of the situation was correct."
Sen. Bob Corker, an outspoken Republican critic of President Trump and
his response to Khashoggi's killing, stressed, "If the crown prince went
in front of a jury, he would be convicted in 30 minutes." Asked by a reporter
if it would be a murder conviction, Corker replied "yes."

"Mr. Trump has repeatedly
defended the Saudi government in the wake of the Khashoggi killing in October.
In November, the president said that bin Salman may have had no knowledge
of the killing, and in any event the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia
should not be jeopardized.

"All evidence leads back
to the crown prince" Republican Sen. Richard Shelby told reporters as he
left the briefing on Tuesday. Two senators present told CBS News that Haspel
did not share with lawmakers the audio tapes from the day Khashoggi was
killed and reportedly dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul,
Turkey. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has said the U.S. does not have
any such tapes in its possession."

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

12-7-18

Think Republicans don't
have a problem with racism? Remain clean as the driven snow? The
Washington Post reports:

"President Trump’s nominee
to be a federal judge in North Carolina cleared a key hurdle Wednesday
when the Senate voted narrowly to advance him toward confirmation amid
a racially charged controversy over his record as a lawyer. But it was
unclear whether Thomas Farr would have the necessary support to win confirmation.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the chamber’s only African American Republican,
would not commit to supporting him, even as he voted to move the nomination
forward. Vice President Pence cast a tie-breaking vote to help Senate Republicans
move Farr, who defended voting laws that a court ruled were designed to
disenfranchise minority voters, to a final roll call expected later this
week. The vote was 51 to 50. After a nearly hour-long wait Wednesday, Scott
cast a procedural vote to move ahead with Farr’s nomination, dashing Democratic
hopes that he would join them to defeat it. Scott did not reveal his intentions
publicly until he cast his vote Wednesday afternoon."

Gutless. Epitome
of aggressive stupidity. What could he possibly been thinking?
Clearly, partisanship over principle.

"All 49 members of the
Democratic Caucus opposed the nomination, as did Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.),
who is opposing all judicial nominees until he gets a vote on legislation
to protect the probe into Russian election interference by special counsel
Robert S. Mueller III. All of the other Republican senators voted for Farr.
The tense vote came at a moment when racial tensions have risen to the
forefront of the national political debate. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith
(R-Miss.) won a runoff Tuesday after a contentious campaign in which her
comments about being willing to join a supporter in the front row of a
public hanging stoked controversy. Her critics said the remark evoked Mississippi’s
long history of lynching African Americans."

"After the tally, Scott
did not indicate how he would vote on final confirmation. He said he spoke
with the author of a 1991 Justice Department memo obtained by The Washington
Post that sheds some light on the 1990 campaign of Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.),
on which Farr worked. The campaign received scrutiny for distributing postcards
that the Justice Department later said were sent to intimidate black voters
from heading to the polls. Scott said he had to speak to the author again
“and continue to look at what role [Farr] did play at every facet of the
process.” Scott said he has spoken to Farr. Farr has denied playing any
role in drafting the postcards."

Scott's head remains securely
lodged up his ass. Again, what could he possibly been thinking?
Think his constituents who elected him will continue to support him?

Here's the kicker and
proof positive the Senate no longer truly works for the public good, based
on the highest principles:

"The Senate Judiciary
Committee advanced Farr’s confirmation with a party-line vote in January.
Trump nominated Farr to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of North Carolina that has been vacant longer than any other current
opening across the country. President Barack Obama’s nominees — both African
American women — did not receive hearings in the Senate."

Guess who blocked them?

"Before his nomination,
Republicans in control of the North Carolina General Assembly had hired
Farr and others in his law firm to defend congressional boundaries approved
in 2011. In 2016, a federal court struck down the map as racial gerrymandering.
Farr also helped defend a 2013 voter ID law that was considered one of
the strictest in the nation. In addition to requiring residents to show
identification before they could cast a ballot, the law also eliminated
same-day voter registration, got rid of seven days of early voting and
ended out-of-precinct voting."

All to deny the right
to vote to voters Republican nazis did not believe would vote for GOP national
socialists, fascists.

"A federal court ruled
in 2016 that the primary purpose of North Carolina’s law wasn’t to stop
voter fraud but rather to disenfranchise minority voters. The judges wrote
that the law targeted African Americans “with almost surgical precision,”
in part because the only acceptable forms of voter identification were
ones disproportionately used by white people. In addition to opposition
from Senate Democrats, Farr’s nomination drew public rebukes from Andrew
Gillum and Stacey Abrams, high-profile African American gubernatorial nominees
in Florida and Georgia who lost close races in the midterms. “When it comes
to the trifecta of voter disenfranchisement — voter suppression, racial
gerrymandering, and restriction of voting rights — Thomas Farr is, sadly,
one of the most experienced election lawyers in the country,” they said
Tuesday in a joint statement."

Wake up.
Racism is alive and well. So is nazism. ... Hear the rumble?

NPR reports:

"The controversial judicial
nomination of Thomas Farr has been derailed in the Senate. South Carolina
Sen. Tim Scott — the lone African-American Republican in the Senate — sealed
Farr's fate by saying on Thursday that he opposed the nomination. His opposition,
along with Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake and all Senate Democrats, means
there is not enough support for the nomination to go forward."

How about that?
At least, Scott finally rose to the occasion.

"In a statement Scott
said, "Confirming judicial nominees is one of the most important responsibilities
of a United States Senator. I take my role in that process very seriously,
as we want to ensure the judicial branch remains honest, fair, and impartial."
The statement continued, "This week, a Department of Justice memo written
under President George H.W. Bush was released that shed new light on Mr.
Farr's activities. This, in turn, created more concerns. Weighing these
important factors, this afternoon I concluded that I could not support
Mr. Farr's nomination."

What took so long?
Why did you gutlessly, initially place partisanship over principle?

"A final vote on Farr's
nomination scheduled for Thursday was delayed by Senate Republicans to
next week, but there was no immediate indication of whether the nomination
would be withdrawn."

Fascinating, isn't it?

"Civil rights advocates
had opposed Farr's nomination, pointing out a person of color had not sat
on that court for more than 140 years. During the Obama administration,
Senate Republicans blocked two African-American women from filling the
seat, leaving it for Trump to fill. Experts say it's the longest unfilled
vacancy on the federal bench, which Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., have been able to fill with scores of new conservative
appointees over the last two years. Democrats had zeroed in on Farr's defense
of a controversial North Carolina voter ID law, which a court struck down
for finding it had targeted African-Americans with "almost surgical precision."
They also criticized his relationship with Helms, who vocally opposed civil
rights and integration. It's not the first time that Scott has sunk a Trump
nominee that's come under scrutiny over racial issues. Earlier this year,
the South Carolina senator opposed the nomination of Ryan Bounds to be
a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit amid allegations
of racist writings. His nomination was eventually pulled."

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"Michael Cohen, a former
personal attorney to President Trump, pleaded guilty Thursday in New York
to lying to Congress about a Moscow real estate project that Trump and
his company pursued during the months he was running for president. In
a nine-page filing, prosecutors laid out a litany of lies that Cohen admitted
he told to congressional lawmakers about the Moscow project — an attempt,
Cohen said, to minimize links between the proposed development and Trump
as his presidential bid was taking off. Cohen falsely said efforts to build
a Trump-branded tower in Moscow ended in January 2016, when in fact discussions
continued through that year, the filing said. Among the people Cohen briefed
on the status of the project was Trump himself, on more than three occasions,
according to the document. Trump has repeatedly said that he had no business
dealings in Russia, tweeting in July 2016, “For the record, I have ZERO
investments in Russia” and telling reporters in January 2017 that he had
no deals there because he had “stayed away.” Cohen’s new guilty plea is
the latest development in a wide-ranging investigation by special counsel
Robert S. Mueller III into Russian interference in the 2016 election."

Fascinating, isn't it?
Think Trump's not soiling his pants?

"According to the criminal
information filed by prosecutors, Cohen sent a two-page letter to the committee
in which he “knowingly and deliberately” made false statements, including
that the Moscow project “ended in January 2016 and was not discussed extensively
with others in the company,” that Cohen “never agreed to travel to Russia
in connection with the Moscow project and ‘never considered’ asking Individual
1 to travel for the project,” and that Cohen “did not recall any Russian
government response or contact about the Moscow Project.” The document
does not identify “Individual 1,” but according to people familiar with
the case, that person is President Trump. “Cohen discussed the status and
progress of the Moscow Project with Individual 1 on more than the three
occasions Cohen claimed to the committee, and he briefed family members
of Individual 1 within the Company about the project,” according to the
information. The document goes on to say Cohen made those statements attempting
to conceal or minimize a number of facts, including that the project “was
discussed multiple times within the company and did not end in January
2016,” but rather Cohen and “Individual 2” discussed the efforts as late
as June 2016. The document does not identify Individual 2, but people familiar
with the investigation said it is Sater. The document also says that Cohen
discussed in May of 2016 the possibility that he might travel to Russia
before the Republican National Convention and that Individual 1 might travel
there after the convention, but a month later, told “Individual 2” - Sater
- that he would not be making such a trip."

What webs we weave.

The Washington Post
reports:

"Michael Cohen reached
a new plea deal Thursday [11-29-18]
with the team of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, in which he admitted
to lying to Congress about an effort to build a Trump Tower in Moscow."

Why is that important?
Here is the take of The Post's Aaron Blake:

"1. There are conspicuous
mentions of Trump and his family. In written testimony to both the House
and Senate intelligence committees last year, Cohen said the Trump Tower
Moscow deal was abandoned in January 2016. “By the end of January 2016,
I determined that the proposal was not feasible for a variety of business
reasons and should not be pursued further,” Cohen said. The plea deal,
though, says that not only did Cohen continue to pursue the project through
June 2016, but also that he briefed Trump on it more than the three times
he had originally claimed, and also that he briefed Trump’s family members."

Someone's lying.
Guess who.

"2. Putin’s spokesman
appears to have helped cover this up. It has been reported that Cohen emailed
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press office in January 2016 seeking
to grease the skids for the deal. But Cohen had said he never heard back.
Turns out, that was a lie. An assistant to Putin’s top spokesman, Dmitry
Peskov, emailed him back, according to the plea deal, and then Cohen spoke
with the assistant on the phone for 20 minutes. But Cohen wasn’t the only
one who lied about it. So, too, apparently, did Peskov. Here’s what Peskov
said of the matter in August 2017: “ . . . Since, I repeat again, we do
not react to such business topics — this is not our work — we left it unanswered.”

Fascinating, isn't it?

"3. This ties the Trump
family’s efforts to the Russian government. As Cohen was planning to travel
to Russia, his Russian associate Felix Sater relayed a message that Cohen
might even get an audience with Putin or Russian Prime Minister Dmitry
Medvedev. Sater told Cohen that Peskov “would like to invite you as his
guest to the St. Petersburg Forum which is Russia’s Davos it’s June 16-
19. He wants to meet there with you and possibly introduce you to either
[the President of Russia] or [the Prime Minister of Russia], as they are
not sure if 1 or both will be there.” So Cohen not only received a reply
from Peskov’s office but also that office was making high-level arrangements
for him — the lawyer and fixer for an American presidential candidate.
The question from here is how much Trump knew and when. If Putin’s office
was helping him with a business proposal during the 2016 election, that
casts his Russia commentary in whole new light. And Trump is already having
to retreat from his previous claims of not having business in Russia."

Think Trump doesn't have
a problem?

"4. The deal apparently
died the day The Post broke a story about Russian hacking. The plea deal
indicates that the last known discussion about the deal was “on or about
June 14,” 2016, when Cohen told Sater that he was canceling plans to travel
to Russia. Why is that date significant? It happens to be the day The Washington
Post broke a big story that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee."

The noose is clearly figuratively
tightening. Mueller has been methodically, carefully conducting this
investigation. Precisely, why Trump continues to scream bloody murder
as the indictments, pleas, convictions move closer and closer to the kingpin.

The Washington Post
reports:

"Acting attorney general
Matthew G. Whitaker was notified in advance that President Trump’s former
personal attorney would plead guilty Thursday to lying to Congress about
a Moscow real estate project that Trump and his company pursued while he
was running for president, a person familiar with the matter said. The
notification could strain relations between Whitaker and Trump, who reacted
to the plea by accusing his former attorney, Michael Cohen, of lying to
spare himself prison time. As acting attorney general, Whitaker is the
nominal supervisor of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who has been
investigating Cohen and signed his plea Thursday. That is important because
as a legal commentator before he came to the Justice Department, Whitaker
was highly critical of Mueller’s work, even suggesting an acting attorney
general could stifle Mueller’s budget to shut down his probe. Democrats
and others have called unsuccessfully for Whitaker to recuse himself from
the case, in part because of his past comments, fearing he might take steps
to interfere with the ongoing investigation."

Think he won't?
Already hasn't? Here's why this is a problem:

"Justice Department policies
and special-counsel regulations call for Whitaker to be notified of significant
events, including “major developments in significant investigations” and
“events affecting the Department that are likely to generate national media
or Congressional attention.” Importantly, though, the regulations do not
require the attorney general to approve such steps. The attorney general
can request that the special counsel explain a step that is being taken
and can conclude that an action is “so unwarranted under established Departmental
practices that it should not be pursued.” The attorney general is supposed
to give “great weight” to the special counsel’s views, and at the end of
the case Congress is supposed to be notified of any proposed action that
was vetoed. It was not immediately clear when the special counsel’s office
notified Whitaker of Cohen’s plea, or how Whitaker reacted. Cohen’s appearance
Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, at which he admitted lying about
the Moscow project, surprised many in the media. A Justice Department spokeswoman
declined to comment."

Appearance alone is not
good. Lack of transparency, even worse.

"Cohen admitted as a part
of his plea that he lied in part to “minimize links” between the Moscow
project and Trump, and in hopes of limiting ongoing probes into ties between
Russia and the Trump campaign. Prosecutors said in court documents that
he discussed efforts to obtain Russian government funding for the project
as late as June 2016 and discussed the status and progress with Trump more
than he had previously told congressional investigators. Trump said his
former attorney was “lying, and he’s trying to get a reduced sentence for
things that have nothing to do with me.” The president also stressed that
the project never came to fruition."

So what? Moreover,
have everything to do with you.

Paul Waldman of The
Washington Post put it best:

"When he spoke to reporters
about this Thursday, Trump stressed over and over that it would have been
perfectly fine for him to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, as he had long
sought to do. Legally speaking, that’s true. But given the controversy
around Trump’s solicitousness toward Vladimir Putin and the growing realization
that Russia was intervening in the campaign on his behalf, through 2016
it was important for him to distance himself publicly from Russia, which
he did many times by stressing that he had no investments there. That provides
the explanation for why Cohen would have lied to Congress about the Moscow
deal, claiming that by the time the campaign heated up it was no longer
being considered. In the document filed Thursday with Cohen’s guilty plea,
the Mueller team explains that while Cohen testified and said publicly
that the Moscow project was abandoned before the Iowa caucus in early 2016,
that was in fact false:

"COHEN made
the false statements to (1) minimize links between the Moscow Project and
[Trump] and (2) give the false impression that the Moscow Project ended
before ‘the Iowa caucus and . . . the very first primary,’ in hopes of
limiting the ongoing Russia investigations."

Appears to be an extremely
complicated investigation of a highly convoluted fiasco. Called obstruction.

NPR reports:

"Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony
to Congress about his family's real estate negotiations with powerful Russians
does not comport with the new version laid out by Donald Trump's ex-attorney
Michael Cohen, official transcripts show."

Imagine that. Couldn't
be, could it. Someone's lying. Guess who.

"Trump Jr. told the Senate
Judiciary Committee in September 2017 that although there had been negotiations
surrounding a prospective Trump Tower in Moscow, they concluded without
result "at the end" of 2014. "But not in 2015 or 2016?" Trump Jr. was asked.
"Certainly not '16," he said. "There was never a definitive end to it.
It just died of deal fatigue." Trump's account contrasts with the new version
of events given by Cohen on Thursday in a guilty plea in federal court.
In that new version, Cohen says the discussions with at least one Russian
government official and others in Moscow continued through June 2016, well
into Trump's presidential campaign."

Couldn't be Junior is
following in the footsteps of dear old Dad, could it?

"Cohen initially told
Congress he reached out to a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin
and didn't hear back. On Thursday, his guilty plea acknowledged that he
had heard back and that other negotiations with other Russians went forward.

"The shift in understanding
of the events of 2016 provided by Cohen is important for a few reasons:
First, it called into question the Trump family's denials about having
business dealings with Russians. Second, it confirmed the Trumps had a
channel open with powerful Russians at the same time the Russian government
was waging a widespread campaign of "active measures" against the United
States."

In follow up to the above,
NPR reports:

"Editor's note: An
earlier version of this report mischaracterized an answer Donald Trump
Jr. gave to Senate investigators in 2017 about the prospective projects
his family was negotiating with people in Moscow. The story reported that
Trump Jr.'s response — that negotiations on one project concluded by the
end of 2014 — contrasted with the version of events as laid out in the
guilty plea by Michael Cohen on Thursday. In fact, Trump Jr. and investigators
were alluding to a different set of negotiations — not to a deal that Cohen
was reportedly pursuing. Trump Jr. did acknowledge in his testimony that
Cohen and another man were exploring a possible deal in Moscow in 2015
or 2016. Trump Jr. did not address what Cohen has now admitted — that talks
about such a deal continued at least into June 2016, longer than previously
known and well into the presidential campaign.

"This week's guilty plea
by Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen has raised questions about
Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony to Congress regarding his family's real estate
negotiations with powerful Russians. Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary
Committee in September 2017 that he was only "peripherally aware" of negotiations
that Cohen has admitted to carrying on through June 2016. Cohen said in
his guilty plea that he had briefed Trump's family members about his talks,
although the court documents don't specify who. Trump Jr. also told Senate
investigators that he wasn't aware that Cohen had reached out to the press
secretary for Vladimir Putin as part of his talks with Moscow about a putative
new Trump Tower project there. Cohen had previously told Congress that
although he emailed Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, he hadn't heard back,
and the discussions with people in Moscow concluded by January 2016. Cohen
then acknowledged in his guilty plea that, in fact, Peskov had responded
to him and he and others had continued negotiations about the project until
after Trump had become the presumptive GOP nominee. Trump Jr.'s answers
allude to a number of prospective projects; he was asked by Senate investigators
about news reports about a Trump Tower Moscow negotiation that took place
in 2015 and 2016, which he acknowledged but did not detail."

Still believe the president
isn't shitting in his pants as Mueller closes in on the kingpin? The
Washington Post reports:

"Special counsel Robert
S. Mueller III on Tuesday recommended that former national security adviser
Michael Flynn serve no prison time, citing his “substantial assistance”
with several ongoing investigations, according to a new court filing."

Imagine that. Couldn't
be, could it?

"Flynn was forced out
of his post as national security adviser in February 2017 after the White
House said he misled administration officials, including Vice President
Pence, about his contacts with Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the
United States at the time. Since then, Flynn has been cooperating with
Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign,
and his full account of events has been one of the best-kept secrets in
Washington. He is one of five Trump aides who have pleaded guilty in the
special counsel probe. The special counsel’s filing Tuesday is the first
time prosecutors have described Flynn’s assistance since the former national
security adviser’s guilty plea last year. But Tuesday’s sentencing memo
was heavily redacted, continuing to shroud in secrecy the details of what
Flynn has told Mueller’s team and other prosecutors."

Think Trump isn't concerned?
Hasn't a care in the world?

"The special counsel wrote
that Flynn has provided information for several ongoing investigations
— participating in 19 interviews with federal prosecutors and turning over
documents and communications. The filing indicated that Flynn has provided
extensive assistance to Mueller, including about matters that were redacted
and hidden from public view. It also indicated that he has cooperated with
a separate unidentified criminal investigation, the details of which were
completely redacted."

How about that?
Mueller is clearly zeroing in.

"Mueller wrote that Flynn
had provided “firsthand information about the content and context of interactions
between the transition team and Russian government officials,” though the
details were largely redacted."

Still no collusion, Mr.
'President?'

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12-7-18

Think election officials
are not partisans? Wake up. NPR reports:

"When Ohio State elections
law professor Daniel Tokaji tells colleagues from other parts of the world
about how the United States picks election officials, he says they're stunned.
"And not in the good way," says Tokaji. That's because in a large portion
of the U.S., elections are supervised by an official who is openly aligned
with a political party. It's a system of election administration that's
routinely come under scrutiny over the past two decades, and did again
in this year's midterms especially in Georgia, Florida and Kansas. "Just
about everyone recognizes that it's inherently unfair for the umpire in
our elections to be also a player on one of the two teams, Democrat or
Republican," Tokaji says. Still, that's how election administration works
in much of the country, according to University of North Carolina Charlotte
political science professor Martha Kropf, who studies the topic."

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12-7-18

Endless lies. Deception.
ABC News reports:

"General
Motors is very counter to what other auto, and other, companies are doing.
Big Steel is opening and renovating plants all over the country. Auto companies
are pouring into the U.S., including BMW, which just announced a major
new plant. The U.S.A. is booming! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2018

"In doing so, though,
the president repeated his frequent false claim that steel plants are opening
all over the country. The claim was repeatedly debunked by fact-checkers
from ABC News and other news organizations during his time on the campaign
trail, and the White House has declined to elaborate on what the president
is actually referring to, although U.S. Steel has said it has restarted
some blast furnaces that were previously dormant prior to Trump’s steel
tariffs."

A congenital liar.

"BMW offered its own response
to the president's tweet, confirming only that they “are considering building
an engine plant in the U.S.” But it did not go as far as the president,
who said the car company has “just announced a major new plant.” “We can
confirm that we are considering building an engine plant in the U.S. to
supply BMW vehicles manufactured in the U.S. and Mexico," Domonic Stoiber
with BMW’s Corporate and Governmental Affairs said in a statement. "We
have talked for the past few years about an engine plant to support our
North American production and sales and we are now again investigating
this option."

Trump has no credibility.

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12-7-18

Think privacy is not under
ferocious attack? CBS News reports:

"Some Delta Air Lines
passengers will soon go through airport check-in and security just by showing
their faces. The nation's first biometric airport terminal launches Saturday
in Atlanta. The system will allow passengers to go from curb to gate and
onto the plane without showing their passports.

"The technology is about
saving time but it's not without some controversy. Republican Sen. Mike
Lee and Democrat Ed Markey have called on Customs and Border Protection
to stop expanding the biometric program, partially mandated by Congress,
until the agency implements privacy regulations and provides a report to
Congress on the viability of biometrics. "It's a massive threat and I don't
say that lightly. What the program is doing is making it commonplace to
use your face as a digital ID," said Jeramie Scott, an attorney at the
Electronic Privacy Information Center. John Wagner, deputy executive assistant
commissioner at CBP, is the architect of the system. He said U.S. citizens
can opt out of having the airline collect their photograph and transmit
to CBP. He also said they see a 98 to 99 percent match rate."

How soon before it becomes
mandatory? Forget? We already live in a de facto fascist police-state
since 9/11, quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.
... Hear the rumble?

Aggressive stupidity reigns:

"As Flight 185 to Shanghai
boarded we watched most passengers opt to use the facial recognition system
to board. Passenger Alicia Graham said she's not worried about it. "This
is the world we live in…TSA already has it so what's the difference?" Graham
said."

You're a clueless idiot,
ma'am. Head securely lodged where the sun seldom shines. Morons
like you, lady, enable these nazi f--kers to continue to eviscerate all
civil and constitutional rights and liberties. You're proof positive
of the old adage, 'can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.'

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12-7-18

The following speaks for
itself. NPR reports:

"A federal ethics agency
is telling civil servants to avoid workplace talk about impeachment and
#resistance for the next 705 days — until the day after Election Day 2020.
The memo from the Office of Special Counsel also warns federal employees
not to engage in "strong criticism or praise of a presidential administration's
policies and actions." The only presidential administration right now is
President Trump's. The document was circulated to ethics officials across
the government this week. The 79-year-old Hatch Act is mainly aimed at
keeping partisan politics out of executive-branch bureaucracy. The small
Office of Special Counsel, or OSC, enforces the act, periodically publishing
guidance as new issues arise. (OSC isn't to be confused with special counsel
Robert Mueller, who leads the investigation into possible Russian interference
in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.) The new guidance is all about
Trump. He's the only major candidate who has announced he's running in
2020 (he did it a few weeks after taking office), the only candidate whom
some critics want to impeach and the object of the social media hashtag
#resistance that liberals coined as he took office in 2017."

The Hatch Act can certainly
be abused by a nazi dictator and his henchmen.

"Ana Galindo-Marrone,
chief of the OSC Hatch Act unit, said the guidance was written in response
to questions from federal workers and agencies' ethics officers, and that
it wasn't intended to be sharply different from existing standards. She
said the phrase "strong criticism or praise" didn't draw a stricter line
than other regulatory limits, such as to "support or oppose" a specific
candidate. "To me, it's no different from the language we've used before,"
she told NPR."

Think so?

"But Debra Katz, a Washington,
D.C., lawyer who handles employment and whistleblower cases, said the new
language in the guidance "can't be inadvertent." She described the guidance
as bringing a partisan taint to OSC, which oversees Hatch Act coverage
of more than 2 million workers in the executive branch. "I think we need
to look no further than this act to say this office has become politicized,"
she said. Ward Morrow, assistant general counsel of the American Federation
of Government Employees, said the guidance "would seem to have a real chilling
effect," inhibiting employees' discussion of policies and legislative proposals."

Direct threat to the First
Amendment Freedom of Speech.

"The Hatch Act guidance
comes at a time when the administration is under scrutiny for trying to
stifle discourse in other ways. This month, the White House unsuccessfully
attempted to permanently pull the press credentials of a CNN reporter who's
an aggressive questioner of the president. The Trump administration also
has pulled security clearances from retired intelligence officials who
oppose his policies."

Mark of a despot.
Fascist dictator.

"Since the administration
took office, many government scientists, particularly those in the field
of climate research, report political interference in their work. This
month, Trump and high-level officials have sought to discredit a major
climate change report issued by a range of scientists across the government."

An abusive tyrant doing
his best to discredit legitimate science.

Yet, when the Hatch Act
is deliberately violated by idiots in the Trump regime, nothing is done:

"Several Trump administration
officials have run afoul of the Hatch Act. In March, presidential counselor
Kellyanne Conway violated the act when she endorsed a Senate candidate
during interviews in front of the White House. There was no punishment.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is being investigated for possible Hatch
Act violations related to appearances he made with candidates this year.
And the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
has filed Hatch Act complaints against several other Trump appointees."

A double standard imposed
by a national socialist, fascist despot.

"American Oversight, a
liberal watchdog group, is urging OSC to rescind the new guidance. Austin
Evers, the group's director, said the agency should enforce the Hatch Act,
but the guidance "opens a dangerous door for the Trump administration to
crack down on dissent."

Precisely, the intention
of the Trump nazi and his henchmen.

NBC News reports:

"A government watchdog
agency on Friday ruled that six Trump administration officials violated
the Hatch Act after they tweeted support for Republicans or President Donald
Trump on their government Twitter accounts, but declined to take disciplinary
action. The Office of Special Counsel found that deputy press secretary
Raj Shah and five other administration officials violated that act, which
prohibits government employees from engaging in political activity, after
Citizens for Responsible Ethics, or Crew, filed a complaint this past August.
The independent government agency, which enforces the Hatch Act, determined
that Shad violated the law when he tweeted on June 4 linking to research
from the Republican National Committee promoting Trump's first 500 days
in office. The now-deleted tweeted said, "Fantastic @RNCResearch release
#Winning: 500 Days Of American Greatness" and linked to an RNC webpage
outlining the Trump administration accomplishments and included a button
to make political contributions to the RNC. Shah, who is press secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders' second-in-command, was one of the most senior people
the watchdog agency said had violated the law. The agency said although
it concluded Shah and other communication staffers violated the act it
declined to pursue disciplinary action and closed their files."

Why weren't they held
legally accountable? Why not? Someone paid off?
Someone desperate to gutlessly placate the Trump nazi? Remain in
his good graces. At the very least, a goddamned double standard.

"They all have been advised
that if in the future they engage in prohibited political activity while
employed in a position covered by the Hatch Act, we will consider such
activity to be a willful and knowing violation of the law, which could
result in further action," the agency said in a letter to CREW."

Crock of shit. They
knew precisely what they were doing. Yet, you failed to hold them
legally accountable. No justice.

Think that's all? Wake
up. Get this:

"Other staffers include:
Deputy director of communications Jessica Ditto; Madeleine Westerhout,
an executive assistant to the president; former director of media affairs
Helen Aguirre Ferré; Alyssa Farah, the press secretary for Vice
President Mike Pence; and Jacob Wood, the Office of Management and Budget
deputy communications director. The agency ruled that Ditto violated the
law when she used her account to retweet Shah's June tweet. Westerhout,
Ferré, Wood, Farah violated the rule by using their official account
to tweet or display the president's "Make America Great Again" campaign
slogan, which is prohibited because the president is still a political
candidate. The staffers later deleted the tweets. Complaints were also
filed against Sanders, the press secretary, deputy press secretary Lindsay
Walters and OMB director Mick Mulvaney, however, the agency determined
that their tweets did not break the law. The OSC ruled this past March
that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act in 2017
when she expressed support for GOP candidate Roy Moore, and against Democratic
candidate Doug Jones, in Alabama's special Senate election."

Why weren't these pieces
of human excrement held legally accountable for this criminal activity?
Forget? If you're a peasant, spit on the street, jay walk, commit
some other chicken shit offense, your sorry ass gets promptly ticketed
or hauled to jail. Why aren't people at the top of the food chain
accorded similar treatment?

Why the f--k not?
Instead, this goddamned government is desperately trying to gag low level
staff from criticizing the Trump nazi. An egregious crock of shit.
A de facto fascist police-state, quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's
Fourth Reich. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second
American revolution catastrophically looming.

"CREW's executive director
Noah Bookbinder applauded the ruling in a statement but said there needs
to be more done to deter Hatch Act violations."

You think?

"While we are glad to
see the OSC confirm CREW’s findings of Hatch Act violations, warnings have
not been enough to deter Trump Administration officials from using their
official positions to engage in partisan political activity in direct violation
of the law," said Bookbinder. "Since the time that these violations were
committed, CREW has filed 11 additional Hatch Act complaints against Trump
officials. Simply put, OSC must consider additional measures to prevent
these rampant abuses." The White House did not immediately respond to a
request for comment."

What the f--k could
the assholes say?

The Washington Post
reports:

"Six White House officials
violated a federal law that prohibits public employees from conducting
political activity in their official roles when they used their official
Twitter accounts to send or display political messages supporting President
Trump, according to the federal agency that enforces the law. The announcement
came the same day the Office of Special Counsel sought to clarify when
federal employees could use words like “impeachment” or “resist” without
running afoul of the 1939 Hatch Act — underscoring how political polarization
in the Trump era has made the federal bureaucracy an increasingly fraught
workplace. The six White house employees, who included members of the press
office, deleted their social media posts once they were told they had violated
the Hatch Act, the Office of Special Counsel said. As a result, federal
investigators issued warning letters rather than taking disciplinary action
and advised that similar social media activity in the future would be considered
a willful violation of the law that could result in further action, according
to Erica S. Hamrick, deputy chief of the Hatch Act unit. The White House
officials who were reprimanded were principal deputy press secretary Raj
Shah; deputy director of communications Jessica Ditto; Madeleine Westerhout,
executive assistant to the president; Helen Aguirre Ferré, former
director of media affairs; Alyssa Farah, press secretary for Vice President
Pence; and Jacob Wood, deputy communications director for the Office of
Management and Budget."

Slap on the wrist to all
six who knew precisely what they were doing, but thought they'd get a free
pass under the Trump nazi. Certainly, did.

"The White House did not
respond to a request for comment."

What the f--k could
they say? LOL.

"All six had tweets or
Twitter profiles that contained political messages, including the Trump
campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” or the abbreviated hashtag #MAGA.
Because Trump is running for reelection, the Office of Special Counsel
— a separate agency from the Justice Department special counsel’s office,
which is leading the Russia investigation — prohibits federal employees
from displaying Trump’s 2016 campaign images or using his slogan.

"Earlier this week, the
office drew criticism from some government watchdog groups when it issued
guidance stating that advocating for or against the impeachment of federal
officials is prohibited under the Hatch Act, whose purpose is to make sure
the government is run in a nonpartisan fashion and to protect federal employees
from political coercion."

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12-7-18

Incompetence. Egregious
invasion of privacy. To say nothing of the hassle, cost, and ongoing
waste of time for victims. NPR reports:

"In one of the largest
cybersecurity breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday that
information on up to about 500 million of its customers worldwide was exposed
in a breach of its Starwood guest reservation database dating as far back
as 2014. The world's largest hotel chain said it learned of the breach
on Sept. 8."

Where the hell have they
been all these years? Out to lunch?

"For 327 million of the
affected guests, the compromised data includes "some combination of name,
mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood
Preferred Guest ("SPG") account information, date of birth, gender, arrival
and departure information, reservation date, and communication preferences,"
the company said. For some customers, the information "also includes payment
card numbers and payment card expiration dates, but the payment card numbers
were encrypted," Marriott added. But the company said it could not rule
out the possibility that the hackers were able to decrypt those details.
Marriott said it reported the data breach to law enforcement officials
and has begun to notify "regulatory authorities." The attorneys general
of New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts said they've opened investigations
into the breach.

"We’ve
opened an investigation into the Marriott data breach. New Yorkers deserve
to know that their personal information will be protected. —
NY AG Underwood (@NewYorkStateAG) November 30, 2018"

Clearly, not possible.
This crap occurs over and over and over again. If guests are willing
to pay cash, put down a cash security deposit, why the hell is that not
sufficient? Why do they need all this goddamned personal information
they clearly cannot protect?

"Arne Sorenson, Marriott's
president and chief executive officer, said: "We deeply regret this incident
happened. We fell short of what our guests deserve and what we expect of
ourselves. We are doing everything we can to support our guests, and using
lessons learned to be better moving forward."

"The data breach is one
of the largest in history. It's not as massive as the 2013 hack of Yahoo,
which hit 3 billion users, and exposed data including names, email addresses,
phone numbers, birthdates and passwords. But the Marriott breach includes
sensitive data such as passport numbers, mailing addresses and credit card
information. Equifax said about 148 million people were impacted by a massive
cybersecurity breach of the credit-reporting agency last year. That data
included names, Social Security numbers, birthdates, addresses and, in
some cases, driver's license numbers and credit card information."

Delusionally believe this
is not a massive, continuing issue? Wake up.

"The Marriott hack is
"one of the most significant data breaches in history given the size ...
and the sensitivity of the personal information that was stolen," Ted Rossman,
an analyst with CreditCards.com, said in an email. Given the sensitive
personal information involved, he said, people "should be concerned that
criminals could use this info to open fraudulent accounts in their names."
Rossman recommends that affected people freeze their credit by contacting
credit agencies Experian, Equifax and TransUnion."

Until you finally, courageously
stand up to the corporate management suite, this shit will not end.
Think these clueless bastards truly give a shit? Consider it a cost
of doing business. As they laugh their corpulent asses off all the
way to the bank. You're being shamelessly f--ked. Too stupid
to understand?

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12-7-18

Trump loses another one.
ABC News reports:

"A federal judge in New
York ruled Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold public
safety grants to six states and the City of New York based on the fact
that they’re so-called sanctuary cities. “Consistent with every other court
that has considered these issues, the court concludes that defendants did
not have lawful authority to impose these conditions,” the decision said."

How about that?
The Trump nazi still thinks he's a 'law' unto himself. So do his
henchmen. Clearly, not. Certainly, not in what is supposed
to be a democratic republic based on the United States Constitution and
rule of law.

"The city, six states
– New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Virginia
– and the District of Columbia sued the administration over the threats
to withhold money for criminal justice programs under what’s known as the
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, named for a New York City
cop killed in the line of duty. “The courts have spoken: President Trump’s
attempt to bully our city into enforcing his draconian immigration policies
is unconstitutional,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “Unlike
Trump’s fact-free claims to the contrary, by welcoming immigrant communities
we have helped make this the safest big city in the country. This is a
great victory, and we will never stop fighting on behalf of immigrant New
Yorkers.”

"The Justice Department
attempted to put immigration-related conditions on the grants, which total
in the millions. The states said it was a matter of separation of powers
and challenged the administration’s authority to compel them to adopt President
Trump’s preferred immigration policies. The judge cited the administration’s
“lack of authority to impose the three conditions on federal funding” and
noted “the separation of powers acts as a check on tyranny and the concentration
of power.”

Indeed. No question.

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12-7-18

Ongoing insanity.
NPR reports:

"The Department of Homeland
Security has asked several federal agencies to send civilian law enforcement
officers to the border, according to a DHS official. These agencies include
the Departments of State, Justice, Energy, Transportation, Labor and Interior,
the DHS official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "The President
has made it clear that border security is a top administration priority,"
DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman said in a statement. "In line with the President's
direction and given the very real threat we face at the border from potential
mass migration actions – of course, DHS has reached out for assistance
from partners across the federal government to defend our sovereignty,
protect our frontline men and women, and secure our border. We appreciate
all of the support we have received to date."

Ongoing stunt by the Trump
nazi. To keep his sick sycophants in line and goose stepping.

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12-7-18

Outrageous infringement
on the First Amendment. NBC News reports:

"CNN on Thursday parted
ways with contributor Marc Lamont Hill after a speech the college professor
made on Israel and Palestine at the United Nations."

Gutless, mindless muzzling
of free speech. Capitulation to the Nazi Right by the gutless bastards
at CNN.

"A CNN spokesperson confirmed
Hill is no longer under contract. The network did not give a reason, but
the move comes amid objections to Hill's speech by the Anti-Defamation
League and other groups. Hill, a professor of media studies at Temple University
who had been a recurring political commentator on CNN, called for countries
to boycott and divest from Israel in the Wednesday speech given for the
U.N.'s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People." "We
have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but to commit
to political action, grass-roots action, local action and international
action that will give us what justice requires and that is a free Palestine
from the river to the sea," Hill said in the speech.

"Yesterday,
I gave a speech at the UN in which I critiqued Israel’s polices and practices
toward Palestinians. It’s baffling how people are not responding to the
critique, but instead responding to things I didn’t actually say. —
Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) November 29, 2018"

Political correctness
run amok:

"The ADL and others said
the "river to the sea" phrase is code for the destruction of Israel often
used by Hamas and groups bent on its destruction. "Those calling for 'from
the river to the sea' are calling for an end to the State of Israel," ADL's
Senior Vice President for International Affairs Sharon Nazarian, said in
a statement, adding that the annual event at the U.N. "promotes divisiveness
and hate." Hill sent a series of tweets responding to his firing and defending
his speech."

Why should he have had
to do this? He is entitled to his opinion and the right to state
it. Did not do so while on the CNN dime. So what the
f--k is their problem?

"My reference to 'river
to the sea' was not a call to destroy anything or anyone," Hill said on
Twitter. "It was a call for justice, both in Israel and in the West Bank/Gaza.
The speech very clearly and specifically said those things." "I support
Palestinian freedom. I support Palestinian self-determination," Hill tweeted,
adding, "I do not support anti-Semitism, killing Jewish people, or any
of the other things attributed to my speech. I have spent my life fighting
these things."

No longer matters in Nazi
America, a goddamned fascist police-state, quickly transitioning to the
Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. CNN is achingly gutless.
Hopelessly, out to lunch. Has caved in to the Nazi Right.

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12-7-18

Nothing quite like aggressive
stupidity, is there? The following would be laughable any other time
other than current circumstances under the Trump nazi. NPR reports:

"A New Mexico man applying
for a marriage license in Washington, D.C., this month had his state driver's
license rejected as a form of identification because a clerk and her supervisor
believed New Mexico was a foreign country. Gavin Clarkson, a Las Cruces,
N.M., resident, said he was at the District of Columbia Marriage Bureau
on Nov. 20 applying for a license to wed his then-fiancée when their
nuptial plans hit a brief snag. The clerk told him he would need an international
passport on the apparent belief that he wasn't a U.S. citizen. "She thought
New Mexico was a foreign country," he said of the clerk as quoted by the
Las Cruces Sun-News. "All the couples behind us waiting in line were laughing."
Clarkson was a recent candidate for New Mexico secretary of state and is
a member of the Choctaw Nation. He said he protested the clerk's decision
to her supervisor, who also failed to recognize New Mexico as a state.

"A spokeswoman for the
District of Columbia Courts acknowledged the error. "We understand that
a clerk in our Marriage Bureau made a mistake regarding New Mexico's 106-year
history as a state," said Leah H. Gurowitz, director of media and public
relations for D.C. Courts, in an email to the Sun-News. "We very much regret
the error and the slight delay it caused a New Mexico resident in applying
for a DC marriage license."

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12-7-18

Think the following a
portend of things to come? Something to look forward to? LOL.
NPR reports:

"How will the Trump administration
get along with Democrats when the opposition party holds subpoena, investigation
and budget-setting power come January?"

Apparently, not particularly
well. LOL.

"Interior Secretary Ryan
Zinke offered a preview Friday afternoon, responding to criticism from
the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee by insinuating
on Twitter that Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva is a drunk."

Imagine that? Think
so?

"Grijalva is likely to
chair the committee, which oversees Interior, when Democrats take control
of the House at the beginning of next year's congressional session. Earlier
Friday, Grijalva had published an opinion piece in USA Today calling attention
to various ethics scandals that have swirled around Zinke, urging the Montana
Republican to resign. "It's hard for him to think straight from the bottom
of the bottle," Zinke responded in a statement posted on Twitter, including
a hashtag referencing a bar near the U.S. Capitol where lawmakers and political
operatives drink after work. He also called him "hostile" and suggested
the Democratic congressman should step down. Grijalva ignored the attack,
issuing a statement saying "the American people know who I'm here to serve,
and they know in whose interests I'm acting. They don't know the same about
Secretary Zinke."

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12-7-18

Imagine what life must
be like in the home of Trump presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway, --
particularly
lately? LOL. Pillow talk? Must be devilishly riveting.
LOL. The Washington Times reports:

"George Conway, husband
to Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, accused President Trump
Monday of violating witness tampering laws. During a Twitter tear on the
Mueller investigation, Mr. Trump cheered on former campaign adviser Roger
Stone for resisting to work with the special counsel’s team. ” ‘I will
never testify against Trump.’ This statement was recently made by Roger
Stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out
of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about ‘President Trump,’
” the president tweeted, “Nice to know that some people still have ‘guts!’
“

"Sen. Mark Warner, the
vice-chairman of the Intelligence Committee, condemned Mr. Trump’s tweets
as a misuse of the bully pulpit. “The President of the United States should
not be using his platform to influence potential witnesses in a federal
investigation involving his campaign,” the Virginia Democrat tweeted. In
addition to potential collusion with Russia, the special counsel’s team
is reportedly looking into a possible obstruction of justice case against
Mr. Trump, part of which would focus on his Twitter feed."

"Eric Trump and George
Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, traded barbs
on Twitter after the president's son accused Conway of "utter disrespect"
toward his wife because he frequently criticizes the administration."

"Of
all the ugliness in politics, the utter disrespect George Conway shows
toward his wife, her career, place of work, and everything she has fought
SO hard to achieve, might top them all. @KellyannePolls is great person
and frankly his actions are horrible. —
Eric Trump (@EricTrump) December 4, 2018"

Grow up, Eric. You're
behaving like a child. ... Just like dear old Dad. LOL.

Conway would have none
of it. LOL. Stuck it to the young 'whippersnapper' in a way
that might have gone way above the 'kid's' achingly clueless head.
LOL.

"Conway responded to Eric
Trump's criticism by retweeting pointed bon mots by Ian Bassin, the former
associate White House counsel to President Barack Obama, and former federal
prosecutor Renato Mariotti.

"Bassin, mimicking the
younger Trump, wrote: "Of all the ugliness in politics, the utter disrespect
the Trumps show toward the rule of law, the presidency and its place of
work, and everything this nation has fought SO hard to achieve might top
them all. Donald Trump is [a] terrible person and frankly his actions are
horrible."

Of
all the ugliness in politics, the utter disrespect the Trumps show toward
the rule of law, the presidency and its place of work, and everything this
nation has fought SO hard to achieve might top them all. Donald Trump is
terrible person and frankly his actions are horrible. https://t.co/fEtH3MLcyN —
Ian Bassin (@ianbassin) December 4, 2018"

The former federal prosecutor
added his two cents:

"Mariotti wrote in response
to Eric Trump, "How does noting that your father engaged in witness tampering
today disrespect Kellyanne Conway?"

"Conway formed a group
of conservative lawyers last month to speak out against the Trump administration
called “Checks and Balances,” and has blasted the president in opinion
articles in The New York Times and The Washington Post in recent months.
He told Yahoo News last month that the administration is like “a s***show
in a dumpster fire.” In the same interview, however, he praised his wife
for steering Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. “Look, my wife did an
amazing thing,” he said. “She basically got this guy elected. She steadied
that boat.”

LOL. Think so?
Joking aside, they must have quite a secure relationship to weather the
Trump nazi. Equally to the point and in all seriousness, the president's
antics have to be causing his loved ones enormous angst and pain.

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12-7-18

Another egregious attack
on privacy by the de facto fascist police-state we now live in, quickly
transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. NBC News reports:

"The U.S. Secret Service
on Nov. 19 started testing a facial recognition system that uses security
cameras to capture images of people outside the White House and then tries
to match them to “people of interest.” The move has heightened concerns
of the government using high-tech tools to expand its monitoring of the
public. In this case, the “people of interest” at least for now are Secret
Service workers who have volunteered to take part in the test. But the
security cameras take video of people on the sidewalk and street, and there
is no way for them to avoid having the system run their faces against the
facial recognition program. Those who don’t want that to happen “may choose
to avoid the area,” the Secret Service said in a document published last
week."

Aryan arrogant jackbooted
bastards.

"All images captured during
the pilot will be limited to the White House security system and will be
deleted once the test ends next August, the Secret Service said."

Think so?

"The test seems to be
limited enough to avoid immediate privacy concerns, but it “crosses an
important line by opening the door to the mass, suspicionless scrutiny
of Americans on public sidewalks,” Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst
for the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote in a blog post published
Tuesday."

Here's the problem:

"Most adult Americans
are already in a facial recognition database of some kind, the result of
governments formatting driver’s license and passport photos for such use,
according to the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University
Law Center."

Precisely who gave them
the authority? The individuals responsible over all the years?

"Real-time facial recognition
systems are also being designed for use by local police departments. Amazon,
for example, is testing its facial recognition product, called Rekognition,
with the police in Orlando, Florida. The Orlando pilot is similar to the
White House pilot in that it appears to be limited to volunteer officers.
Ultimately, the Secret Service wants to identify "people of interest" outside
the White House more quickly than the current system, which relies on static
images from surveillance cameras that agents and officers compare against
lists. The lists contain images of "people of interest" who may pose a
threat based on their contact with law enforcement officers, social media
posts, tips from the public and media reports, the agency says."

"The Secret Service has
not said what company it hired to provide the facial recognition system
or where exactly the cameras are placed. The agency declined to comment
on Tuesday."

Goddamned f--king nazi
storm troopers. No foreign power, no terrorist organization, not
even the criminal element presents a greater threat to life, liberty, all
civil and constitutional rights and liberties than all levels and branches
of government, -- including law enforcement. ... Right, Sheriff?

"There are few regulations
at any level of government outlining how law enforcement can use facial
recognition, leaving it to individual agencies to decide what’s best."

Lawmakers across our formerly
great country serve only their corporate masters and law enforcement.
Certainly, not the people who elected them to office. ... Right,
Sheriff?

"That worries privacy
and civil-rights advocates, who say there is little keeping the government
from targeting particular groups, such as immigrants or participants in
political protests. They also point out that facial recognition is run
by algorithms that have been shown to misidentify people of certain races
-- black women in particular."

"Wells Fargo says a computer
glitch is partly to blame for an error affecting an estimated 545 customers
who lost their homes. The giant bank filed papers with the Securities and
Exchange Commission last month, revealing it incorrectly denied 870 loan
modification requests. About 60 percent of those homeowners went into foreclosure.

"Legislators, housing
advocates, regulators and most importantly, the people who lost their homes
– people like Jose Aguilar – are asking how this happened. "It's been very
hard for me. It's something I wouldn't wish upon anybody," Aguilar told
CBS News correspondent Anna Werner.

"He said the problems
began when he and his ex-wife found mold in the house. He tried to remediate
it himself but fell a few months behind on the mortgage payments. So the
couple asked their lender Wells Fargo to modify their loan to lower their
monthly payment. "At first they told me, 'OK, you know, you might be able
to qualify for a loan modification,'" Aguilar said. But he said then came
the delays – weeks, then months – waiting for a decision. "Then the whole
process just started all over again. And then it got to the point we were
a year behind," Aguilar said. Finally, Wells Fargo turned them down."

Imagine that. Couldn't
be, could it? ... Right, Amanda?

"He and his wife split
up. The house went into foreclosure. With the hit to his credit, Aguilar
said he found no one would rent to him. "At that point my son and I had
to move to the basement of a friend's house and we stayed there for three
months, and we had nothing. We had a couch and my son had a bed," Aguilar
said, choking up with emotion. "I felt worthless. I felt like I had let
my family down." Then in September this year, nearly three years later,
he got a letter from Wells Fargo. "Dear Jose Aguilar," it read, "We made
a mistake… we're sorry." It said the decision on his loan modification
was based "on a faulty calculation" and his loan "should have been" approved.
"It's just like, 'Are you serious? Are you kidding me?' Like they destroyed
my kid's life and my life, and now you want me to – 'We're sorry?'" Aguilar
said."

The Wells Fargo Way.
... Right, Amanda?

"Wells Fargo now said
that "calculation error" on loan modifications affected 870 customers over
an eight year period, customers who either were denied loan modifications
or "were not offered a modification in cases where they would have otherwise
qualified." About 545 of those customers ultimately lost their homes to
foreclosure. At least some of those people got a check from Wells Fargo
along with the letter. In Aguilar's case, it was for $25,000. But his attorney
Marc Dann said that doesn't begin to cover his total losses. "So how do
you think they came up with the amounts of money that they handed out to
people?" Werner asked. "That's what we want to find out. We want to find
out what went wrong, how it went wrong," Dann said. Alys Cohen is with
the National Consumer Law Center. "The question is, how did this happen?
Aren't they supposed to check their computer programs regularly to make
sure they're accurate?" Cohen said. "This is clearly more than just a simple
computer mistake."

The only way this issue
and others at the bank will be resolved and rectified is by asset forfeiture,
criminal prosecution of all those involved. ... Right, Amanda?

"Wells Fargo said it plans
to work with each of those customers to reach a resolution. The bank is
also offering no-cost mediation. Meanwhile, non-profit groups and some
legislators are pushing for more answers."

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12-7-18

Trump lost another one
in court. NPR reports:

"The Department of Defense
will begin assigning thousands of immigrants holding green cards to basic
training, reversing a Trump administration policy that delayed their service
as they were subjected to enhanced background checks. The policy change,
first reported by the Washington Post, follows a preliminary injunction
issued by U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar in the Northern District of
California in mid-November. He sided with two lawful permanent residents
who argued that they were discriminated against by the Pentagon policy
that delayed their service for more than a year and left them in limbo
between a military and civilian career. The lawsuit was filed on behalf
of Jiahao Kuang of San Leandro, Calif., who came to the U.S. from China
in 2004 at the age of 8 and Deron Cooke of Trenton, N.J., who had emigrated
from Jamaica in 2015.

"The two immigrant recruits
were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union which had issued
this statement in November.

"Tigar's
ruling finds that the Defense Department provided no rational justification
for the policy change, stating that it provided no evidence indicating
that lawful permanent resident enlistees posed more of a risk than U.S.
citizens.

" 'The
ruling serves yet another blow to the administration's anti-immigrant agenda,'
said Sameer Ahmed, an attorney with the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.
'This decision affirms that there is no justification for discriminating
against individuals who want to risk their lives for this country simply
because of their immigration status.' "

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"The Republican-controlled
state Legislature in Wisconsin has approved new limits on the power of
Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers in a lame-duck session. Following overnight
debate, lawmakers voted Wednesday to restrict Evers from following through
on a campaign promise to remove Wisconsin from a multi-state lawsuit challenging
the Affordable Care Act. The bill would also limit early voting in Wisconsin
and give state lawmakers more power over the state's economic development
agency, which Evers has said he would like to eliminate. In the wee hours
of the morning, the plan narrowly passed the state Senate, later the Assembly
and now the bill moves to Gov. Scott Walker's desk for his signature. During
debate, Democrats decried the plan as an abuse of power. "The seeds you're
planting may grow into something you will regret," said Sen. Fred Risser,
a Democrat from Madison. "Be fair. Give the voters the right to choose
their governor and attorney general."

Clearly, no longer possible
in Nazi Wisconsin. LOL.

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12-7-18

Think the Israeli aggressor
does not have serious problems of its own making? NPR reports:

"Protesters across Israel
on Tuesday criticized what they say is the government's failure to address
violence against women. Activists carried signs bearing the names of women
killed this year, lit candles and blocked city streets. Some demonstrators
lay in the roads, with fake blood splattered across their clothes, and
clutching stuffed animals. In Tel Aviv, protesters displayed shoes that
had been dyed red. In Jerusalem, a fountain spouted red fluid, resembling
blood. Media outlets reported that people chanted for Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to "wake up, our blood is not cheap."

Ferociously pointedly,
not
like the blood of Palestinians?

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12-7-18

Amazing how U.S. jurisdiction
extends across the universe, isn't it? NBC News reports:

"China on Thursday demanded
the release of Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies' chief financial
officer after she was detained in Canada on extradition charges to the
United States. Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the company's founder Ren
Zhengfei, was arrested in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Dec. 1. This
came after President Donald Trump met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping
and agreed to hold fire on the trade war between the two countries. China's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs said officials have been contacted both in
the U.S. and Canada to demand Meng's release. Geng Shuang, a spokesman
for the Foreign Affairs Ministry, said her detention needed to be explained,
and both countries had to "effectively protect the legitimate rights and
interests of the person concerned." The Wall Street Journal reported earlier
this year that U.S. authorities are investigating whether Huawei violated
sanctions on Iran. When asked about the Iran reports, a spokesperson for
privately held Huawei told NBC News in a statement that it "complies with
all applicable laws and regulations where it operates, including applicable
export control and sanction laws and regulations." The news spooked investors
with U.S. stocks tumbling on fears of a flare-up in Chinese-U.S. tensions.
On Wednesday, China's Commerce Ministry said the weekend's Trump-Xi talks
had been "very successful," but the statement was vague on a 90-day deadline
for negotiations touted by Washington."

Clearly, aggressive stupidity
reigns supreme.

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"An unidentified turkey
about to be pardoned by President Trump appeared in the White House press
briefing room on Tuesday, surprising the assembled media. The bird quickly
put the members of the press at ease, though, by treating them as they’d
come to expect in that room: eyeing them skeptically, answering no questions
and leaving after only a few minutes."

No kidding.
LOL.

"ABC News’s Alex Mallin
made an interesting observation about the bird’s appearance. By stopping
by briefly, the turkey had spent more time on the room’s podium in front
of the media this month than has White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.
Curious about how the two compared, I emailed Post photographer Jabin Botsford,
who was in the room for the appearance. The bird, he said, was there for
about five minutes. We can compare that with the total time Sanders has
spent at the podium this month in her daily press briefings: zero minutes.

"Like many of Sanders’s,
the turkey’s visit to the briefing room included another person who answered
the bulk of the questions. After those five minutes, the turkey, no doubt
frustrated by the press of reporters, was quickly ushered out of the room.
We haven’t confirmed this yet, but it appears not to have seized any reporters'
press credentials on its way out."

NPR reports:

"President Trump and televised
spectacle go together like peas and carrots. And those just happen to be
the names of the unflappable turkeys that Trump pardoned — on camera —
Tuesday afternoon."

Jesus Christ. Give
me a break. LOL. ... With all the tweeting, continual campaigning
where does this nazi find time to do his job? Almost forgot, he
doesn't.

"The two hefty toms (Peas
weighs 39 pounds and Carrots 41) arrived in Washington, D.C., on Sunday
from South Dakota, where they were raised. After a luxurious but possibly
confusing two-night stay in the Willard Hotel, they crossed the street
to the White House for the pardon ceremony."

Lucky birds. Certainly,
spent two nights far better than the homeless in Washington.

"That turkey is so lucky,"
Trump said upon pardoning Peas. "I've never seen such a beautiful turkey."

Look in the mirror.

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11-30-18

On a far more serious
note, ABC News reports:

"Over the weekend, President
Donald Trump said that the U.S. government would complete a "full report"
on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Tuesday while denying
reports that the CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman ordered the killing. "They haven’t accessed anything yet -- it’s
too early,” Trump said. “That was a very premature report. But that’s possible.
We’re gonna see.”

Trump remains a congenital
liar:

"But a State Department
official who has seen a version of the CIA's assessment on the murder of
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi told ABC News it's "blindingly obvious"
that the crown prince, known as MBS, ordered Khashoggi's death. "The idea
that it goes all the way to the top is blindingly obvious," said the State
Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "There's overwhelming
consensus that the leadership is involved -- no one is debating it within
the government," the official said. While saying no doubts are expressed
in the report, the official acknowledged that the words "probably" and
"likely" are used when attributing the death to the crown prince. The source
noted that CIA analysis reports rarely include explicit conclusions."

Trump can't, won't be
confused with the truth. Especially, when it conflicts with his agenda.

"Among the evidence cited
in the report, the official said, is the relationship between members of
the kill team and the crown prince, and the hierarchy of the Saudi system.
The official said the report is based on communication intercepts -- including
prior phone calls between the kill team and aides for the crown prince
-- and on the ground reporting and analysis. The official said the government's
reporting was being updated daily.

"Trump, in an interview
with Fox News that aired Sunday, made clear that an audio recording of
Khashoggi's killing, supplied by the Turkish government, would not affect
his response to the Oct. 2 killing of Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington
Post who had been critical of the Saudi royal family. "It's a suffering
tape, it's a terrible tape. I've been fully briefed on it, there's no reason
for me to hear it," Trump said in the interview with "Fox News Sunday."
''I know everything that went on in the tape without having to hear it."
Trump also noted that the crown prince has repeatedly denied being involved
in the killing inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. "Will anybody really
know?" Trump asked. "At the same time, we do have an ally, and I want to
stick with an ally that in many ways has been very good."

To whom?
Big Oil? No question. At expense of drivers since January 1973
when the price of gasoline virtually doubled overnight as a result of the
Saudi oil embargo. Readers are reminded at least some of the 9/11
terrorists were Saudis. Also, that other Saudis in this country at
the time of the attack were allowed to leave despite the fact air travel
had been suspended.

... To say nothing of
war profiteers in the corporate management suite and shareholders who immensely
financially benefit off weapons sold to the Saudis. Trump has again
demonstrated he and his henchmen are hopelessly amoral, that is, without
morals. Money reigns. Trumps all. Clearly, the Trump
nazi has disgraced himself and our formerly great country.

"In an extraordinary statement,
President Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Arabia in the face of mounting
pressure over the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
“Representatives of Saudi Arabia say that Jamal Khashoggi was an “enemy
of the state” and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but my decision is
in no way based on that – this is an unacceptable and horrible crime,”
Trump said in his statement. “King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad bin
Salman vigorously deny any knowledge of the planning or execution of the
murder of Mr. Khashoggi,” Trump said in the statement. He went on: “Our
intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could
very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event –
maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!” Trump issued the statement without referencing
any conclusions in the latest CIA assessment on Khashoggi's murder, which
he had said would be completed Tuesday."

Comfortable with this
lunatic figuratively having his finger on the nuclear button?

"Trump made clear the
US-Saudi relationship is one he refuses to diminish. This, despite outrage
among members of his own party on Capitol Hill, who have vowed to seek
justice in Khashoggi's killing. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo echoed the
president's position at a briefing Tuesday. "So it's a mean, nasty world
out there," Pompeo said. "It is the president's obligation and indeed the
State Department's duty as well to ensure we adopt policies that further
America's national security."

Unadulterated horse shit.
Direct opposite remains, sadly, the case. Big Oil and corporate war
profiteers are the ones that benefit. Off looted drivers and taxpayers.
Treason.

"He went on: "So as the
president said today, the United States will continue to have a relationship
with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, they are an important partner of ours."

A 'partner' that's lining
the pockets of the corporate management suite off looted drivers and taxpayers.
Not all GOP nazis are fully on board, however:

“They’re an important
ally, but when it comes to the Crown Prince, he’s irrational, he’s unhinged,
and I think he’s done a lot of damage to the relationship between the United
States and Saudi Arabia, and I have no intention of working with him ever
again,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said on Sunday."

"The Saudis have denied
the crown prince ordered Khashoggi's killing."

Lying bastards.

“The United States intends
to remain a steadfast partner of Saudi Arabia to ensure the interests of
our country, Israel and all other partners in the region. It is our paramount
goal to fully eliminate the threat of terrorism throughout the world!”
Trump said in his statement."

Egregious non-sequitur.
The Saudis finance and promulgate terrorism. Trump doesn't know
that? ... Or, is it the fact money always comes first to the amoral
nazi element in our formerly great country?

NBC News reports:

"Former CIA director John
Brennan responded to Trump's statement by saying that Congress should obtain
and make public the CIA's findings about Khashoggi's death. "Since Mr.
Trump excels in dishonesty, it is now up to members of Congress to obtain
& declassify the CIA findings on Jamal Khashoggi's death," said Brennan,
a scathing critic of Trump. "No one in Saudi Arabia most especially the
Crown Prince — should escape accountability for such a heinous act." Democrats
also reacted critically. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calf., said that "to
allow this to happen with no consequences is offensive to every value the
United States holds dear." "Human rights is more than just a phrase, it
has to mean something. And that means standing up and condemning a brazen
murder by a foreign government," added Feinstein, who said she would vote
against all future arms deals with the Saudis and urged sanctions against
the country's rulers. "Everyone who played a role in this killing must
be held accountable."

Trump couldn't care less.

The Washington Post
reports:

"President Trump issued
an exclamation-mark packed statement Tuesday that defended Saudi Arabia,
continued to question the CIA’s conclusion that Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman was responsible for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and
effectively declared the issue closed. “King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman vigorously deny any knowledge of the planning or execution of
the murder of Mr. Khashoggi. Our intelligence agencies continue to assess
all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge
of this tragic event — maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!” the statement
read.

"In the eight-paragraph
statement, the president lauded Saudi Arabia’s economic ties with the United
States and emphasized the country’s opposition to Iran. He noted that Saudi
Arabia considered Khashoggi an “enemy of the state” and a member of the
Muslim Brotherhood but insisted that “my decision was in no way based on
that.” He dismissed suggestions that he slash arms deals with Saudi Arabia,
saying Russia and China would benefit instead.

"The president seemed
to preempt likely criticism from Congress, where a number of pending bills
seek to punish Saudi Arabia. Some of Trump’s allies, including Sen. Lindsey
O. Graham (R-S.C.), have said Mohammed has no credibility and they will
not deal with him in the future. “I understand there are members of Congress
who, for political or other reasons, would like to go in a different direction
— and they are free to do so. I will consider whatever ideas are presented
to me, but only if they are consistent with the absolute security and safety
of America,” Trump said."

"Several activists imprisoned
in Saudi Arabia since May, including a number of women who campaigned for
the right to drive, have been beaten and tortured during interrogation,
Amnesty International said Tuesday. Saudi Arabia has detained at
least 10 women and seven men on vague national security allegations related
to their human rights work. Those detained include Loujain al-Hathloul,
Eman al-Nafjan and Aziza al-Yousef, who had campaigned for the right to
drive before the decades-long ban was lifted in June. Amnesty said that
according to three testimonies it obtained, some of the activists were
repeatedly tortured by electrocution and flogging, leaving some unable
to walk or stand properly. In one instance, an activist was hung from the
ceiling. Another testimony said one of the detained women was subjected
to sexual harassment by interrogators wearing face masks."

Goddamned savages.

"The kingdom is at the
center of an international firestorm after the brutal killing of Saudi
journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had written critically about Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman's crackdown on dissent, including the arrests of the
women activists. Khashoggi was killed and then dismembered by Saudi agents
in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. "Only a few weeks after
the ruthless killing of Jamal Khashoggi, these shocking reports of torture,
sexual harassment and other forms of ill-treatment, if verified, expose
further outrageous human rights violations by the Saudi authorities," said
Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty's Middle East research director."

Here's the regime the
Trump nazi continues to support:

"Some of the imprisoned
activists were unable to walk or stand properly, had uncontrolled shaking
of the hands and marks on their bodies. One of the activists reportedly
attempted to take her own life repeatedly inside the prison, Amnesty said.
Al-Hathloul, an activist in her late 20s, was held in solitary confinement
for around three months after her May arrest, a person close to her told
The Associated Press. She was forcibly returned to Saudi Arabia earlier
this year from the United Arab Emirates, where she was pursuing a master's
degree in Abu Dhabi. Her husband was pressured into divorcing her after
he too was forcibly returned to Saudi Arabia from Jordan, where he was
working, according to the individual, who spoke on condition of anonymity
for fear of repercussions."

Goes on and on. Wake
up.

Trouble in 'paradise.'
NBC News reports:

"Amid international uproar
over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, some members of Saudi Arabia's
ruling family are agitating to prevent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
from becoming king, three sources close to the royal court said. Dozens
of princes and cousins from powerful branches of the Al Saud family want
to see a change in the line of succession but would not act while King
Salman — the crown prince’s 82-year-old father — is still alive, the sources
said. They recognize that the king is unlikely to turn against his favorite
son, known in the West as MBS. Rather, they are discussing the possibility
with other family members that after the king's death, Prince Ahmed bin
Abdulaziz, 76, a younger full brother of King Salman and uncle of the crown
prince, could take the throne, according to the sources. Prince Ahmed,
King Salman’s only surviving full brother, would have the support of family
members, the security apparatus and some Western powers, one of the Saudi
sources said."

ABC News reports:

"The top Republican and
Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.,
and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., sent a letter to the White House Tuesday
evening to officially trigger an investigation into whether the young crown
prince ordered the plot. The move sets up a showdown between Capitol Hill
and the White House as members of both parties in Congress call on Trump
to be tougher on Saudi Arabia. "It is a delicate situation when we have
a longtime ally that we've had for decades, but we have a crown prince
that I believe ordered the killing of a journalist," Corker told ABC Chattanooga,
Tennessee, affiliate WTVC.

"Still, Corker and Menendez's
letter requests the administration conduct an investigation of MBS's role
under the Global Magnitsky Act, a 2016 law the authorizes U.S. sanctions
for human rights abuses or corruption. The law grants Congress the authority
to order the administration to investigate an individual and make a determination
within 120 days, although it doesn't obligate the administration to then
sanction the person. "In light of recent developments, including the Saudi
government's acknowledgment that Saudi officials killed Mr. Khashoggi in
its Istanbul consulate, we request that your determination specifically
address whether Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman is responsible for Mr.
Khashoggi's murder," the senators wrote."

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11-30-18

Amazing how aggressive
stupidity, political correctness can go on and on, decade after decade.
NBC News reports:

"Newly empowered Democrats
plan to let lawmakers wear religious head coverings on the House floor
by creating an exception to a hat ban that has existed since 1837 — when
there was reportedly very little debate before the enactment of a rule
prohibiting what one member then described as the “really harmless but
apparently indecorous practice” of indoor hat-wearing. In recent years,
the rule hasn't been enforced to preclude members, staff or religious leaders
from wearing head coverings on the floor, but the victory of Minnesota
Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, a Muslim who wears a headscarf, has put a spotlight
on its continued existence. Democrats say they will add an exemption for
religious headwear under their new package of rules changes for the next
Congress, which begins in January, so that the protection of religious
expression is explicit. The language will also cover someone wearing a
head covering due to illness and loss of hair."

No question, a good change
in rules that should have occurred quite some time ago. Then, this:

"Democrats know that our
strength lies in our diversity, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation
or religion,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in a statement
to NBC News. “After voters elected the most diverse Congress in history,
clarifying the antiquated rule banning headwear will further show the remarkable
progress we have made as a nation."

Give me a break.
Democrats have been hopelessly out to lunch since November 22, 1963, the
Kennedy assassination. Time for Pelosi to retire. Not to neglect
to mention ole Mitch "The Bitch" McConnell and all the old wood in both
major political parties. Been there way too long. Whatever
happen to term limits championed by the Tea Party? One of the few
things these GOP fascists got right during their short run.

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11-30-18

DOJ Acting AG struggle
continues unabated. NPR reports:

"Critics intensified their
pressure on the acting attorney general on Tuesday, but the Justice Department
— including the office of special counsel Robert Mueller — says it's carrying
out business as usual. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asked the Justice
Department's watchdog to investigate whether there have been any "unlawful
or improper communications" between the White House and acting Attorney
General Matthew Whitaker. Democrats say they worry Trump is using Whitaker
to lean on Mueller, who is investigating whether anyone on Trump's campaign
may have conspired with the Russians who attacked the 2016 election. Whitaker
publicly criticized the Mueller investigation before joining the Trump
administration."

Clearly, this remains
a democratic republic in name only. No one's effectively minding
the store. Democrats continue to blow hot air while Republican national
socialists, fascists, nazis continue to do as they please. Will go
on until at least January when the House changes hands.

"Recent reports regarding
Mr. Whitaker's unusual history of contacts with the White House give rise
to serious concerns about whether he has engaged in communications intended
to undermine or obstruct special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation
into Russian interference in the 2016 election, or that otherwise may have
been in violation of law or policy," Schumer wrote."

Yet, you and your fellow
hopelessly useless, gutless Democrats won't even walk off the Senate floor
in protest of these goddamned nazis?

"He was the latest Democrat
to go on the offensive against Whitaker over what critics call his "unconstitutional"
appointment. Trump put him in place over the Justice Department's already-serving
and Senate-confirmed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein."

Empty rhetoric.
No action.

"A group of Democrats
earlier sued the Justice Department in federal court over that appointment,
arguing that Whitaker's installation amounts to a bid by Trump to constrain
Mueller's work." "The idea that Matthew Whitaker will control this investigation
is absolutely abhorrent. He should at the very least recuse himself," Connecticut
Sen. Richard Blumenthal told NPR. "He's already stated that he thinks that
the investigation is in effect a hoax. He has provided a blueprint for
how to stifle and strangle it by cutting funds, cutting authority, declining
subpoenas."

All you got? Empty
rhetoric? Hot air? Where's action on the Senate floor?
You gutless pieces of human excrement couldn't even get your sorry asses
in attendance of recent ongoing judicial nomination hearings conducted
by the Republicans during the recess. To load the judiciary with
GOP nazis intent on legislating their outrageously perverse ideological
and religious views from the bench. Pitiful. Goddamned pitiful.

CBS News reports:

"Before joining the Justice
Department, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker earned nearly $1 million
from a right-leaning nonprofit that doesn't disclose its donors, according
to newly released financial disclosure forms. The documents show Whitaker
received $904,000 in income from the Foundation for Accountability &
Civic Trust from 2016 through nearly the end of 2017. He also received
$15,000 from CNN as a legal commentator, according to the documents released
Tuesday by the Justice Department. The nonprofit group, known as FACT,
styles itself as a nonpartisan government watchdog promoting ethics and
transparency. The tax-exempt group is supposed to serve the public interest
without supporting or opposing specific candidates for office. However,
its challenges and its website have focused largely, though not exclusively,
on Democrats and their party. The group does not disclose its donors."

How convenient.
Nazi justice. Delusionally believe either party is better than the
other?

"Whitaker used his role
as president and executive director of FACT in 2016 as a platform to question
the ethics of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. The documents
show that Whitaker began revising his public disclosures the day he was
appointed acting attorney general. He revised the forms four more times,
including on Tuesday. In a disclosure form Whitaker completed when he joined
the Justice Department in September 2017, he reported receiving $1,875
in legal fees from a company called World Patent Marketing. Whitaker has
come under scrutiny for his involvement with the company, which was accused
of misleading consumers and is under investigation by the FBI. Whitaker
also disclosed his partial interest in a family farm in Ely, Iowa, that
he valued at between $100,000 and $250,000. The forms also included disclosures
of $20,000 to $30,000 in credit card debt in 2017."

What webs we weave:

"FACT drew its funds from
2014-2016 mainly from Donor's Trust, another nonprofit designed to provide
anonymity to conservative and libertarian donors. Though such tax-exempt
groups can legally withhold the identity of their contributors and generally
do so, there may be a distinct irony when a group dedicated to transparency
keeps its funding sources in the shadows."

You think?

"Whitaker's appointment
has been criticized by Democrats who have challenged its constitutionality
and are concerned that he will interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller's
Russia investigation. Earlier Tuesday, the Senate's top Democrat asked
the Justice Department's watchdog to investigate communications between
Whitaker and the White House. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asked
the inspector general to look into whether Whitaker had access to confidential
grand jury information in Mueller's probe. Schumer also wants investigators
to examine whether Whitaker shared information with Trump or others in
the administration. John Lavinsky, a spokesman for the DOJ inspector general,
declined to comment on Schumer's request."

Fascinating, isn't it?

The Washington Post
reports:

"Raeanna Woody’s crimes
hardly seemed like they would add up to a life sentence in prison. She
had two nonviolent drug convictions, for possessing marijuana and delivering
12 grams of methamphetamine. But when she was arrested in a third drug
case, she said, the office of U.S. Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker decided
to make an example of her. Under Whitaker, who is now acting attorney general,
Woody was given a choice: spend the rest of her life in jail, or accept
a plea bargain sentence of 21 to 27 years, according to court records.
She took the deal. Federal Judge Robert W. Pratt in the Southern District
of Iowa later accused prosecutors of having “misused” their authority in
her nonviolent case. He urged President Barack Obama to commute her sentence
— and Obama did shorten her term , after she had served 11 years."

"Woody’s case highlights
one of the most controversial if little-known aspects of Whitaker’s career:
his efforts to obtain unusually stiff sentences for people accused of drug
crimes."

What law and order Republican
nazi wouldn't? Forget? Goes with the territory.

"Whitaker spent nearly
five years as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. His office
was more likely than all but one other district in the United States to
use its authority to impose the harshest sentences on drug offenders, according
to a finding by a different Iowa federal judge, Mark W. Bennett, who it
called a “deeply troubling disparity.” “If the president can look at my
case and he can see that what I had done wasn’t severe enough to warrant
that many years, then why was I given that many years to begin with, why
was that much of my life taken from me?” Woody, a 57-year-old mother of
five, said in an interview. “I blame Whitaker’s office and everybody underneath
him.”

Called nazi justice.

"The Justice Department
declined to comment for this article."

What the f--k could
it say? There is no excuse for this shit. None. None
at all. No more than egregious abuse of power.

"Whitaker’s record on
drug sentencing is newly relevant after President Trump ousted Jeff Sessions
as attorney general this month and replaced him with Whitaker, who was
Sessions’s chief of staff. Trump last week announced his support for legislation
that would give judges more discretion in sentencing nonviolent drug offenders
and reducing prison terms. Sessions had opposed the bill. Now Whitaker,
as acting head of the Justice Department, is in a powerful position to
try to influence the outcome."

God help us all.
Blind leading the blind. Stupid leading the stupid. Incompetent
leading the incompetent. All a sad, sick ruse presided over by a
charlatan.

"Whitaker has come under
intense scrutiny since Trump appointed him on Nov. 7. His unorthodox selection,
with no Senate confirmation, has drawn attention because of concerns that
he would interfere with or shut down special counsel Robert S. Mueller
III’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
He has also drawn scrutiny for saying that judges should have a “biblical
view” of the law and that courts should be an “inferior branch” of government.
In addition, he worked as a board member for an invention-marketing company
that shut down in May and agreed to pay nearly $26 million to resolve a
complaint from the Federal Trade Commission, which accused it of bilking
customers."

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11-30-18

Think the Trump nazi and
his henchmen can be trusted? ... Can any nazi? NPR reports:

"The Justice Department
has discussed the possibility that federal law protecting the confidentiality
of responses to the U.S. census may eventually be reconsidered, an internal
Trump administration email shows."

That's a problem.
A big problem.

"Sharing individuals'
census information with law enforcement and national security officers
may "come up later for renewed debate," a former Justice Department official
suggested in a June 12 email discussing an Obama-era memo issued by the
department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)."

"The email, first reported
by NPR on Nov. 17, was submitted last Friday to the U.S. District Court
in the Northern District of California in a court filing by Andrew Case,
an attorney with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. The law firm, along with
the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Public Counsel, is
representing the plaintiffs in one of the six lawsuits over the citizenship
question the Trump administration added to the 2020 census."

"Last week, the Supreme
Court decided to weigh in on the legal battle, and the justices are set
to hear arguments over an evidence dispute in February.

"In an email, spokesperson
Kelly Laco said the Justice Department declined to comment on NPR's questions
about Aguiñaga's email, including whether the department still agrees
with the 2010 memo and if the issues addressed in the memo have come up
for discussion under the Trump administration. The department also did
not comment on whether there are any laws that could force the Census Bureau
to release information for law enforcement or national security purposes.
Aguiñaga, who has left the Justice Department and currently serves
as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, has not responded
to requests for comment."

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11-30-18

More Trump lies debunked.
NBC News reports:

"Former top members of
the intelligence community rebuked President Donald Trump on Monday for
deriding the retired Navy SEAL who oversaw the 2011 raid that killed Osama
bin Laden as a "Hillary Clinton backer" and suggesting that he should have
caught the al Qaeda leader sooner. Responses to Trump's comments about
retired Adm. Bill McRaven, who has criticized the president's attacks on
the press, poured in Monday from former Director of National Intelligence
James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and Defense Secretary Leon
Panetta, who said Trump should apologize. "This president owes Admiral
McRaven and all of the SEALS involved in that operation an apology for
what he's saying. He's undermining his position as commander-in-chief.
Not only with those that conducted the operation, but with the entire military,"
Panetta, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Barack
Obama at the time of the 2011 raid that killed bin Laden, said on MSNBC's
"Andrea Mitchell Reports" Monday. In a public statement issued later in
the day, Panetta said Trump's "statement criticizing McRaven for not getting
Bin Laden sooner is patently ridiculous" and "demonstrates a profound lack
of understanding of how our military and intelligence agencies operate."

No question. That's
true. Fair enough. Trump demonstrates that on a daily basis.
The unanswered question, however, remains the same since the raid.
That is, since bin Laden offered no resistance, why wasn't he taken alive
and returned to Manhattan for trial? Instead of summarily executed
during the raid.

"Earlier in the day, Brennan,
who was Obama's homeland security adviser at the time of the bin Laden
raid and served as CIA director from 2013 to 2017, tweeted to Trump that
"you constantly remind us how substantively shallow & dishonest you
are on so many fronts, which is why we are in such dangerous times." “You
would need an extremely tall ladder to get anywhere near the level of intellect,
competence & integrity of Bill McRaven & your predecessors,” Brennan,
a prominent Trump critic, said on Twitter.

"You
constantly remind us how substantively shallow & dishonest you are
on so many fronts, which is why we are in such dangerous times. You would
need an extremely tall ladder to get anywhere near the level of intellect,
competence & integrity of Bill McRaven & your predecessors. https://t.co/uW95ZALUZ7 —
John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) November 19, 2018"

Points well made.
Figuratively, right on target.

"Meanwhile, Robert O’Neill,
a former Navy SEAL who claims to have fired the shots that killed bin Laden,
told NBC News' Hallie Jackson Monday that "what the president said about
McRaven" was "a little inaccurate" "The raid to get Osama bin Laden was
not only bipartisan, it was non-partisan. Everybody involved wanted to
get him as soon as we could get him," O'Neill said. "Admiral McRaven is
the reason that my SEAL team got it and Obama approved it. That's just
as simple as it gets," he added."

Is it? Did the former
President order the SEALs to capture him alive if possible and return him
to New York for trial? After all these years, certainly, does not
remain precisely clear what the directive truly was.

"In an interview with
Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday,” Trump blasted McRaven, who oversaw
the raid, as a "Hillary Clinton fan" and said bin Laden should have been
captured much sooner, though he did not explain how the Obama administration
should have done so. The president made the comments after Wallace asked
him about McRaven's criticism of Trump's attacks on the press. Last year,
McRaven, who did not make an endorsement in the 2016 presidential election,
called Trump's lambasting of the news media possibly "the greatest threat
to democracy in my lifetime" during a speech at the University of Texas.

"Of
course we should have captured Osama Bin Laden long before we did. I pointed
him out in my book just BEFORE the attack on the World Trade Center. President
Clinton famously missed his shot. We paid Pakistan Billions of Dollars
& they never told us he was living there. Fools!.. —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2018"

Trump continues to talk
out the ass. Clearly, has no clue what he's talking about.

"McRaven responded on
Sunday, telling CNN that he did not support Clinton or anyone else in the
2016 election. He emphasized that partisanship did not play a role in his
career. On Monday morning, however, Trump doubled down on his remarks,
tweeting that, "Of course we should have captured Osama Bin Laden long
before we did."

They did not capture
bin Laden, summarily executed him.

NPR reports:

"President Trump tried
to sidestep criticism from a former top military commander by insisting
that retired Adm. William McRaven is simply a political player from the
camp of his former opponent Hillary Clinton. That's not so. Trump sought
to undermine McRaven's words by denying them the imprimatur of a decorated
former four-star special operations commander. Instead, as the president
said in a Fox News Sunday interview, they were just more carping from a
"Hillary Clinton fan." But McRaven told CNN he did not back Clinton "or
anyone else" in the 2016 presidential contest. And he stood by his earlier
claim that Trump's attacks on the news media represent a threat to democracy.
McRaven denied the occasional trial-balloon reports that he was being vetted
to serve as a potential running mate for Clinton or in some other top administration
post if she had been elected. While both Clinton and Trump sought to line
up military endorsements during the 2016 contest, McRaven — who was serving
as chancellor of the University of Texas system — said he did not want
to take sides. He told CNN he supported both Presidents Obama and George
W. Bush when he served under them. "I admire all presidents, regardless
of their political party, who uphold the dignity of the office and who
use that office to bring the nation together in challenging times," McRaven
said."

Trump is the exception:

"That admiration did not,
however, extend to Trump. In an op-ed for the Washington Post addressed
to Trump this summer, McRaven wrote that he had hoped the president would
rise to the occasion after being elected, but that he had been disappointed.
"Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children,
humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation,"
McRaven wrote. "If you think for a moment that your McCarthy-era tactics
will suppress the voices of criticism, you are sadly mistaken. The criticism
will continue until you become the leader we prayed you would be." McRaven
also joined a group of former top national security leaders who asked Trump
to take away their security clearances after Trump pulled the one that
belonged to another critic, former CIA Director John Brennan."

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11-30-18

Trump border stunt continues.
Texas Standard reports:

"Tara Copp is Pentagon
bureau chief for Military Times and says criticism of the border deployment
is growing, and its actual purpose and duration is still unclear. Copp
says incoming House Committee on Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith, a
Democrat from Washington state, said the troop deployment is a political
stunt, and racially motivated. He wants the troops brought home quickly."

Why are we wasting taxpayer
dollars on this fiasco? There is no 'invasion.' There is no
threat.

"Copp says Defense Secretary
James Mattis denied that the deployment was a stunt, but didn’t explain
what the military's mission on the border actually entails."

If there is no reasonable
explanation, then this is nothing more than a stunt. By definition.

"The approaching holiday
season, and the troops’ proximity to restaurants and other symbols of American
holiday life and culture, are making the deployment challenging for officials
to explain."

Why? Non-sequitur.
The military always has a reason for what it does or doesn't do.
Top-down. Certainly, not bottom-up. Doesn't have to be smart,
warranted, or reasonable, moreover. Only that they salute and promptly
execute all orders. There is no explanation in this particular example,
however, for one reason and one reason only. The Trump nazi is doing
this for political purposes. To keep his sick sycophants on board
and in line.

“I think that there’s
a general awareness in the Pentagon that this is just not great optics,”
Copp says."

"U.S. troops on the border
with Mexico are expected to get authority from President Donald Trump to
protect Customs and Border Protection personnel if they come under assault
by migrants, two defense officials said."

There is no 'invasion.'
There is no threat. Trump remains a lunatic.

"The force protection
mandate, which didn't exist before, was requested by the Department of
Homeland Security and could go into effect Tuesday, the officials told
NBC News."

Why? You
gutless bastards murder innocent unarmed Mexican protesters on the other
side of the border by shooting them in the back when they throw stones
at your jackbooted thugs. Instead, of moving back from the fence.
You're achingly gutless pieces of shit.

“As Secretary Nielsen
has said, we will not allow our frontline personnel to be in harm’s way.
We will do everything we can to protect those who defend our nation’s sovereignty
and secure our border. We appreciate the Department of Defense stepping
in to assist the Department of Homeland Security as needed," said DHS spokeswoman
Katie Waldman."

Crock of shit. Careful,
Madam Secretary. Posse Commitatus laws remain on the books that outlaw
military personnel from engaging in law enforcement. This is nothing
more than a trumped up crisis by the Trump nazi to keep his sick sycophants
on board and in line.

"About 5,800 troops have
been deployed to the border to join the 2,000 already stationed there.
They are a mix of active duty, reserve and National Guard forces and in
addition to thousands of border patrol agents already deployed to the area.
The operation, renamed earlier this month from "Operation Faithful Patriot"
to "border support," will cost at minimum $200 million, estimates say."

A stunt by the Trump nazi
middle class taxpayers will be mercilessly looted to pay for. While
corporate war profiteers and bribed legislators line their pockets.

CBS News reports:

"The busiest U.S. border
crossing is open again this morning, after a confrontation forced it to
close temporarily Sunday, as frustration among thousands of migrants upset
by the slow pace of the U.S. asylum process boiled over. Yesterday, U.S.
Customs and Border Patrol agents fired tear gas at hundreds of people,
including women and children, after some of them tried to force their way
across the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. Reporting from
Tijuana, correspondent Mireya Villarreal said that the official port of
entry was closed for about five hours yesterday. Violence erupted as Mexican
police attempted to break up the protesters, and some made a run for the
border between Tijuana and San Diego, California."

Readers are reminded this
fiasco has its roots dating back to the Reagan Iran-Contra era. When
Reagan and his henchmen put their noses where they didn't belong.
Engaged in dirty tactics designed to combat communism in Latin America
which similarly was already failing in the former Soviet Union at the time.

Without question, Reagan's
tactics gave rise to far more abusive right wing regimes which subsequently
abused their citizens, led to formation of the gangs. To say nothing
of the current resultant refugee crisis. Now, the Trump nazi incomprehensibly
ignores a crisis of our own making.

"One migrant from Honduras
said, "They started throwing tear gas at us. There were many children who
fainted." Video from a Mexican news channel appears to show an American
border patrol agent yelling at migrants nearing the border to get back.
He then fires rubber bullets, and people scatter. "It was like something
out of a movie," one woman said. "Everyone started running."

"On Monday morning President
Trump tweeted that many of the migrants are "stone cold criminals," and
threatened to close the border permanently.

"Mexico
should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals,
back to their countries. Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you
want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close the Border
permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 26, 2018"

Trump remains nothing
more than a congenital liar. Has no proof of his assertions.
Continues to talk out his ass. Show us the proof, Donny boy.
Show us the proof.

"On Thursday, the Mexican
government issued a statement saying it was requesting help from the United
Nations's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in
dealing with the crisis in Tijuana. However, OCHA spokesman Russell Geekie
told CBS News on Sunday that neither OCHA nor the U.N.'s Resident Coordinator
in Mexico had received any requests for help."

Apparently, the Mexicans
are lying. Don't know what to do to please the Trump nazi.

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11-30-18

The military has another
pressing issue it's going to have to address sooner rather than later.
NBC News reports:

"At the foot of the Chesapeake
Bay in southeast Virginia lies a Naval shipyard older than the nation itself.
One of the country’s first warships was built here in 1799. So was the
first battleship, and decades later the first aircraft carrier. Over the
past three centuries, Norfolk Naval Shipyard has been blockaded and burned
to the ground, only to be rebuilt again and again. Today, it’s one of four
Navy shipyards that maintain the nation’s nuclear-powered submarines and
aircraft carriers, which enable the Pentagon to respond quickly to military
and humanitarian crises across the globe."

A resource this country
cannot afford to lose:

"But the shipyard now
faces its greatest existential threat: rising seas and extreme weather
driven by climate change. In the past 10 years, Norfolk Naval Shipyard
has suffered nine major floods that have damaged equipment used to repair
ships, and the flooding is worsening, according to the Navy. In 2016, rain
from Hurricane Matthew left 2 feet of water in one building, requiring
nearly $1.2 million in repairs. And that wasn’t even a direct hit — the
most immediate worry, former military leaders say, is a strong storm that
blows right through the area. “It would have the potential for serious,
if not catastrophic damage, and it would certainly put the shipyard out
of business for some amount of time,” said Ray Mabus, who was the Navy
secretary under President Barack Obama. “That has implications not just
for the shipyard, but for us, for the Navy.” Among the shipyard’s greatest
vulnerabilities are its five dry docks, which are waterside basins that
can be sealed and pumped dry to expose a ship’s hull for repairs. Once
inside, vessels are often cut open, leaving expensive mechanical systems
vulnerable to damage from storms and flooding. The dry docks “were not
designed to accommodate the threats” of rising seas and stronger storms,
according to a 2017 report by the Government Accountability Office. Navy
officials warned the government watchdog agency that flooding in a dry
dock could cause “catastrophic damage to the ships.”

Time to wake up.
Before too late.

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11-30-18

Judiciary again stands
tall against Trump and his henchmen. The Washington Post reports:

"A federal judge has temporarily
blocked the Trump administration from denying asylum to migrants who crossed
the southern border illegally, saying the president violated a “clear command”
from Congress to allow them to apply. In a ruling late Monday, U.S. District
Judge Jon S. Tigar of San Francisco issued a nationwide restraining order
barring enforcement of the policy President Trump announced Nov. 8, which
he billed as an urgent attempt to stop the flow of thousands of asylum-seeking
families across the border each month. The government had said it would
allow only people who cross at legal checkpoints to request asylum. Those
entering elsewhere could seek a temporary form of protection that is harder
to win and doesn’t yield full citizenship. The changes would amount to
a transformation of long-established asylum procedures, codified both at
the international level and by Congress. “Whatever the scope of the President’s
authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition
that Congress has expressly forbidden,” wrote the judge, whom President
Barack Obama nominated to the federal bench in 2012. Tigar reasoned that
the “failure to comply with entry requirements such as arriving at a designated
port of entry should bear little, if any, weight in the asylum process.”

Judicial check on presidential
abuse of power:

"Tigar said the president
could not shift asylum policy on his own. His order will remain in effect
until Dec. 19, at which point the court will consider arguments for a permanent
order."

Be interesting to see
how this is finally resolved. Likely, in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Think Trump's five Republican nazis on the Court will goose step in unison?

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11-30-18

Walmart steps up.
Had no choice. CBS News reports:

"Walmart, the nation's
largest retail chain, has asked the campaign of Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith,
R-Miss., to refund a total of $4,000 in campaign donations after actress
Debra Messing flagged the contribution and complained to her more than
530,000 Twitter followers. The most recent donation from a Walmart PAC
was reported on Nov. 18, according to a Federal Election Commission report.
The contribution was reported several days after Hyde-Smith was caught
on camera joking alongside one of her longtime supporters that if he ever
invited her to attend a public hanging, she'd sit in the front row. Hyde-Smith
and her campaign later clarified that the comment was a bad joke. But talk
of public hangings in a state with a deep history of them earned a strong
rebuke from her Democratic opponent, Mike Espy, who is African-American,
other Mississippi Democrats and national civil rights groups."

NBC News reports:

"Walmart on Tuesday said
it was "requesting a refund" from the campaign of Republican Sen. Cindy
Hyde-Smith after the company came under pressure to distance itself from
the Mississippi lawmaker's "public hanging" remark. Campaign finance records
show that the company made a $2,000 donation on Nov. 18, nearly a week
after a video of Hyde-Smith saying she would be "on the front row" if a
supporter invited her to "a public hanging" went viral. Records also show
the company gave a $1,000 contribution to her campaign this past June.
The retail giant announced its decision to withdraw its support from Hyde-Smith
in response to actress Debra Messing, who tweeted about the issue on Monday.

"Hi Debra. Completely
understand your concern. Sen. Hyde-Smith’s recent comments clearly do not
reflect the values of our company and associates. As a result, we are withdrawing
our support and requesting a refund of all campaign donations. —
Walmart (@Walmart) November 20, 2018"

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11-30-18

Think the Israelis aren't
behaving like out of control savages? ABC News reports:

"A senior Israeli Cabinet
minister on Wednesday threatened to kill the leader of the militant Hamas
movement ruling Gaza, vowing that another "large campaign" looms in which
Israel will hit the militants hard. Housing Minister Yoav Gallant, a former
military general who commanded the Gaza region, said Hamas leader Yehiyeh
Sinwar should "recalculate his route" before the next engagement. "Yehiyeh
Sinwar's time is limited. He will not end his life in an old folks' home,"
he said, at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference. "He has to behave
himself."

'Kettle calling the
pot black.' LOL.

"We are now close to a
no-choice war against Hamas in Gaza. We must strike hard to restore deterrence,"
Intelligence Minister Israel Katz told the conference. "Any attack on Israeli
soil must be met with a tough response ... if Sinwar or (Hamas political
chief Ismail) Haniyeh were to fire a bullet or a rocket at a soldier or
Israeli citizens they will pay with their heads."

Wake up.
Remove your head from your ass. Deterrence? What deterrence?
The unmitigated brutality of the Israeli aggressor has done nothing more
than increase determination of the Palestinians and others in the region
since
1948.

"Israel assassinated Hamas
leaders Ahmad Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in 2004, and tried to kill
another leader, Khaled Mashaal, in 1997. The killing of senior members
of the group has had no discernible impact on its operations or ideology."

You bastards so clueless,
so hopelessly arrogant you cannot, will not understand what you've done
to date has had the exact opposite effect intended?

"Hamas has staged near-weekly
border protests since March in an effort to lift the Israeli-Egyptian blockade
imposed after the Islamic militant group seized control of the coastal
strip in 2007. The blockade has ravaged Gaza's economy, and Israel refuses
to lift it unless Hamas disarms, a demand rejected by militant group, which
is pledged to Israel's destruction. Demonstrators each week have approached
the border fence, throwing firebombs, grenades and burning tires at Israeli
troops. Israeli snipers have killed about 170 people, most of them unarmed.
Israel says it is defending its border against attackers, but it has come
under heavy international criticism for shooting unarmed people."

Holocaust survivors stole
land from its Palestinian inhabitants in 1948 with the blessing of the
United States, Europe, and the United Nations. Did so without consulting
the Palestinians. Made no effort to come to an understanding or agreement.
Occupied land your ancestors lost centuries ago due to their excesses.
Wake
up.

"Nobody wants war in Gaza
now. It will be very damaging for everyone," said Nickolay Mladenov, the
U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. "I hope we
can step back from this terrible cycle where every Friday we are wondering
if we will go to war or not."

Our country, the United
States, is the ongoing problem. An impediment to peace. Continues
to mindlessly support the Israeli aggressor no matter what it does or doesn't
do. Won't rein in the aggressor. Someday that will change when
Americans finally wake up. When that happens, so will the unthinkable.
That is, Israel, horrendously outnumbered by its enemies, will be destroyed
as US support dries up and finally ends. Time to resolve this issue
now. Before too late.

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11-30-18

Trump's an idiot.
Losing ground. CBS News reports:

"President Donald Trump
on Wednesday cheered the fall in oil prices, saying in a tweet that it
amounts to "a big Tax Cut for America and the World. Enjoy! $54, was just
$82. Thank you to Saudi Arabia, but let's go lower!" While the fall in
oil prices doesn't yet match the 2014-2016 slump to $26 per barrel, the
current slump should soon make itself felt through the global economy.
The international crude benchmark, Brent, has fallen under $65 per barrel
from a four-year high in early October over $86, and U.S. crude has dropped
below $55 a barrel."

Wake up.
We now export more oil than we import. Other than to line the pockets
of domestic Big Oil and its international operations, why are we importing
any
oil? Why aren't we totally energy independent? Should and could
have been for decades. Time to rethink how and why we do things.
Alternative energy is the long-term future. Not fossil fuels. Time
to transition. No matter the pain. If the Trump nazi truly
placed 'America First,' he'd buck Big Oil and call for total energy independence.

Truly believe Trump's
not an idiot? Here's a clue. The Washington Post reports:

"President Trump on Tuesday
dismissed a landmark report compiled by 13 federal agencies detailing how
damage from global warming is intensifying throughout the country, saying
he is not among the “believers” who see climate change as a pressing problem.
The comments were the president’s most extensive yet on why he disagrees
with his own government’s analysis, which found that climate change poses
a severe threat to the health of Americans, as well as to the country’s
infrastructure, economy and natural resources. The findings — unequivocal,
urgent and alarming — are at odds with the Trump administration’s rollback
of environmental regulations and absence of any climate action policy."

'Stupid is as stupid
does.' LOL. Here's the proof:

“One of the problems that
a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but
we’re not necessarily such believers,” Trump said during a freewheeling
20-minute Oval Office interview with The Washington Post in which he was
asked why he was skeptical of the dire National Climate Assessment his
administration released Friday. “As to whether or not it’s man-made and
whether or not the effects that you’re talking about are there, I don’t
see it,” he added."

Stupidly, talks out the
ass. No proof, no evidence to back up his phony claims. Claims,
based no more than on his clueless agenda.

"Trump did not address
the fundamental cause of climate change. The president riffed on pollution
in other parts of the world. He talked about trash in the oceans. He opined
on forest management practices. But he said little about what scientists
say is actually driving the warming of the planet — emissions of carbon
dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. “You look at our air and our
water and it’s right now at a record clean. But when you look at China
and you look at parts of Asia and you look at South America, and when you
look at many other places in this world, including Russia, including many
other places, the air is incredibly dirty, and when you’re talking about
an atmosphere, oceans are very small,” Trump said in an apparent reference
to pollution around the globe. “And it blows over and it sails over. I
mean we take thousands of tons of garbage off our beaches all the time
that comes over from Asia. It just flows right down the Pacific. It flows
and we say, ‘Where does this come from?’ And it takes many people, to start
off with.”

Stupid-ass rambling of
an incompetent out of touch boob. Ignores the facts, consensus of
the scientific community:

"Katharine Hayhoe, a climate
scientist at Texas Tech University, said in an email Tuesday that the president’s
comments risk leaving the nation vulnerable to the ever-growing impacts
of a warming planet. “Facts aren’t something we need to believe to make
them true — we treat them as optional at our peril,” Hayhoe said. “And
if we’re the president of the United States, we do so at the peril of not
just ourselves but the hundreds of millions of people we’re responsible
for.” Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M
University, struggled to find a response to the president’s comments. “How
can one possibly respond to this?” Dessler said when reached by email,
calling the president’s comments “idiotic” and saying Trump’s main motivation
seemed to be attacking the environmental policies of the Obama administration
and criticizing political adversaries."

Again, comes solely down
to the agenda of the achingly clueless nazi currently occupying the Oval
Office.

"On Tuesday, a U.N. report
underscored again how the world is far off course on its promises to cut
greenhouse-gas emissions. The report found that, with global emissions
still increasing as of 2017, it is unlikely they will peak by 2020. Scientists
have said carbon emissions must fall sharply in coming years if the world
is to have a chance of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change.
Trump also made reference to recent devastating wildfires in California,
which scientists say have been made more intense and deadly by climate
change. But the president instead focused on how the forests that burned
have been managed. Previously, he has praised Finland for spending “a lot
of time on raking and cleaning” its forest floors — a notion that left
the Finnish president flummoxed."

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11-30-18

A step in the right direction.
Personal freedom. NPR reports:

"A federal judge in Mississippi
has permanently blocked one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the
country — a ban on the procedure after 15 weeks of gestation. The law was
signed by Republican Gov. Phil Bryant in March, but a court quickly imposed
a temporary block, which was extended several times. The order was set
to expire Monday. "The ban's lawfulness hinges on a single question: whether
the 15-week mark is before or after viability," District Judge Carlton
W. Reeves wrote in his Tuesday ruling. "The record is clear: States may
not ban abortions prior to viability; 15 weeks [since a woman's last menstrual
period] is prior to viability," he wrote.

"Reuters reports the ruling
effectively blocks a similar ban on abortions after 15 weeks gestation
in Louisiana, which was set to take effect if the Mississippi law survived.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, said he knew the law
would be difficult to defend in court. "We know that bans below 20 weeks
have been struck down," he said in March. "We expect an immediate and expensive
legal challenge." "The State chose to pass a law it knew was unconstitutional
to endorse a decades-long campaign, fueled by national interest groups,
to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade," Reeves wrote. "This
Court follows the commands of the Supreme Court and the dictates of the
United States Constitution, rather than the disingenuous calculations of
the Mississippi Legislature." "The Mississippi Legislature's professed
interest in 'women's health' is pure gaslighting," he wrote in a citation.
"Its leaders are proud to challenge Roe but choose not to lift a finger
to address the tragedies lurking on the other side of the delivery room:
our alarming infant and maternal mortality rate."

"Our victory today means
that women in Mississippi will maintain the ability to make their own decisions
about whether and when to terminate a pregnancy," said Nancy Northup, president
and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the lawsuit
on behalf of Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last remaining abortion
clinic in the state. "Today's decision should be a wake-up call for state
lawmakers who are continuously trying to chip away at abortion access.
Such bans will not stand in a court of law," she said in a news statement."

If there is no reproductive
freedom, there is no freedom at all. Who the hell are Republican
national socialists, fascists, nazis to impose their outrageously perverse
religious and ideological views on all? These goddamned nazi sons
of bitches remain too clueless to understand reproductive freedom is far
more than a man keeping it in his pants, a woman with panties up and legs
crossed.

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11-30-18

Finally, some sanity in
the Trump community? ABC News reports:

"Alan Dershowitz, a frequent
defender of President Donald Trump, said special counsel Robert Mueller’s
report will be “devastating” for the president. The Harvard Law professor
emeritus told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos that he believes
the president will have to navigate the political impact of a potentially
damning final report from the special counsel. “I think the report is going
to be devastating to the president and I know that the president's team
is already working on a response to the report,” Dershowitz said on "This
Week" Sunday. Dershowitz added that he believes the report, although it
will have a strong political impact, is unlikely to result in criminal
charges. “When I say devastating, I mean it's going to paint a picture
that's going to be politically very devastating. I still don't think it's
going to make a criminal case,” Dershowitz said."

Could likely provoke an
impeachment investigation with Democrats retaking the House. Mueller,
to date, has certainly been productive:

"Since the probe started
in May of last year, Mueller’s team secured indictments against 32 individuals
and three Russian businesses on charges ranging from computer hacking to
financial crimes. Of those indictments, six people have pleaded guilty
and three have been sentenced to prison."

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11-30-18

Here's the end result
when the power of despot dictators goes unchecked. NPR reports:

"Russian warships seized
three Ukrainian naval vessels on Sunday in a narrow waterway that provides
access from the Black Sea to the much smaller Sea of Azov near Crimea,
ramping up already bitter tensions between the two countries. On Sunday,
Russia dispatched warplanes to patrol the area after the Ukrainian navy
tried to send the ships through the Kerch Strait, a waterway with strategic
significance for both countries that passes under a newly built Russian
bridge. In May, President Vladimir Putin personally opened the bridge over
the Kerch Strait, connecting the Crimea peninsula — which Moscow seized
in 2014 — to Russia's mainland. The 12-mile-long span has been touted by
Russia as a claim to Crimea. Ukraine, along with nearly every other country
in the world, refuses to recognize that claim. Russian vessels rammed one
of the Ukrainian boats and opened fire on the other two before seizing
all three, along with their crews. Ukrainian officials have said six of
its sailors were injured; Russia has said three. The boats were towed to
a nearby port. Video from a Russian ship, including strong language from
the bridge crew, shows it ramming a Ukrainian tug boat — one of the three
vessels that was reportedly seized."

This is going nowhere
good:

"In response, Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko called a late-night meeting with top security
officials in the capital city of Kiev. Poroshenko described the incident
as open Russian aggression and said he planned to ask parliament to approve
the imposition of martial law. Doing so would restrict Ukrainians' civil
liberties and increase state power and give the unpopular president a free
hand to postpone elections in March, where he faces an uphill battle to
hold onto power. Russian state media said Poroshenko provoked the maritime
incident as a means of delaying the election — and potentially to raise
the stakes between President Trump and Putin, who are due to meet later
this week."

Question to be asked is
quite simple. Why wasn't Russia held accountable at the time it seized
Crimea? Why didn't the world break off diplomatic relations at the
time? End all trade? Isolate the aggressor? Instead,
did nothing. Give a dictator an inch, the bastard takes a light-year.

"The incident sparked
an international response and concern mainly for Ukraine over its more
powerful nemesis. The European Union issued a statement "urging all sides
to act with utmost restraint." NATO called for "restraint and deescalation."
"NATO fully supports Ukraine's sovereignty and its territorial waters,"
NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu said in a statement. "We call on Russia
to ensure unhindered access to Ukrainian posts in the Azov Sea, in accordance
with international law." The United Nations Security Council is expected
to hold an emergency meeting on the incident Monday. Russia blocked off
the strait before the incident and reopened it to commercial shipping early
Monday."

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"Several Google employees
have gone public with their opposition to the tech giant's plans for building
a search engine tailored to China's censorship demands. The project, code-named
Dragonfly, would block certain websites and search terms determined by
the Chinese government — a move that, according to a growing number of
workers at Google, is tantamount to enabling "state surveillance." "We
are among thousands of employees who have raised our voices for months.
International human rights organizations and investigative reporters have
also sounded the alarm, emphasizing serious human rights concerns and repeatedly
calling on Google to cancel the project," said the letter's signatories,
whose group initially numbered nine employees but has ballooned since its
publication on Medium.

"News of the program first
surfaced in the website The Intercept, which reported in August that the
customized search engine would "blacklist websites and search terms about
human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest." As NPR's Jasmine
Garsd explained, those terms would likely include such words as "repression,"
"Nobel Prize" and "Tiananmen Square," the Beijing landmark where Chinese
authorities brutally subdued mass protests nearly three decades ago. "And
this is really important," she told NPR's Morning Edition: "The search
platform would also reportedly make Chinese users' search records accessible
to the government."

Raises the question
is Google turning over search records in the United States to government
goons without a warrant?

"Other news outlets, such
as The New York Times, backed up the Intercept's reporting, noting Google's
desire to tap the huge Chinese market — though adding that work on the
project does not necessarily mean its release is imminent. Google once
ran a similarly censored version of its search engine in China, but it
officially pulled out of the country in 2010 after friction with Beijing
and significant backlash in the U.S. The employees are not alone in expressing
their dismay at reports of the new project's development. In fact, they
released their letter the same day that Amnesty International launched
a protest of its own. The human rights organization announced it would
be reaching out to Google staff to add their names to a petition calling
on CEO Sundar Pichai to kill the project before it can even get off the
ground."

Snowball's chance that
will happen. Forget? Profit comes first to the corporate management
suite.

"This is a watershed moment
for Google," Joe Westby, Amnesty's researcher on technology and human rights,
said in a statement Tuesday. "As the world's number one search engine,
it should be fighting for an internet where information is freely accessible
to everyone, not backing the Chinese government's dystopian alternative."

Use Google? You're
a fool. While there is no question its search engine is indeed powerful,
they
track. Sell and share user information. DuckDuckGo
and Startpage do not. Both are excellent, particularly, DuckDuckGo.
There are alternatives to Google. Wake up.

"This is also not the
first time Google's leadership has gotten pushback from within its own
ranks over company policies. The tech giant decided not to renew a contract
with the Pentagon after employees revolted over a controversial project
involving artificial intelligence for drone footage analysis. "Many of
us accepted employment at Google with the company's values in mind, including
its previous position on Chinese censorship and surveillance, and an understanding
that Google was a company willing to place its values above its profits,"
the employees said in their letter Tuesday. "After a year of disappointments
including Project Maven, Dragonfly, and Google's support for abusers, we
no longer believe this is the case," they wrote. "This is why we're taking
a stand."

Wake up.
Time for the public to hold these bastards accountable. Not just
cave in.

The Washington Post
reports:

"More than 90 Google employees
have joined a petition protesting the company’s plans to build a search
engine that complies with China’s online censorship regime. An employee-led
backlash against the project has been churning for months at the company,
but Tuesday’s petition marks the first time workers at Google have used
their names in a public document objecting to the plans.

“Our opposition to Dragonfly
is not about China: we object to technologies that aid the powerful in
oppressing the vulnerable, wherever they may be,” stated the petition,
published on Medium. “The Chinese government certainly isn’t alone in its
readiness to stifle freedom of expression, and to use surveillance to repress
dissent. Dragonfly in China would establish a dangerous precedent at a
volatile political moment, one that would make it harder for Google to
deny other countries similar concessions.”

Need to be equally concerned
about what Google is doing with personal information of users right here
in the United States.

"Amnesty International,
which launched a “day of action” Tuesday protesting Dragonfly, has pushed
Pichai to drop the program and issued an open call for people to sign a
petition. “This is a watershed moment for Google,” Joe Westby, Amnesty
International’s researcher on technology and human rights, said in a news
release. “As the world’s number one search engine, it should be fighting
for an Internet where information is freely accessible to everyone, not
backing the Chinese government’s dystopian alternative.”

Again, need to be equally
concerned about what Google is doing with the data of American users.

"Earlier this year, more
than 1,400 Google employees signed an internal letter demanding more transparency
and accountability on the ethics of company projects, citing Dragonfly
as an initiative that was developed without employee input. “Currently
we do not have the information required to make ethically-informed decisions
about our work, our projects, and our employment,” the letter read. Pichai
has said that Google’s China-compliant search engine is not a done deal.
“I take a long-term view of this,” he said during an event hosted by Wired
in October. “And I think it’s important for us — given how important the
market is, and how many users there are — we feel obliged to think hard
about this problem and take a long-term view.”

Called bullshit.
Unadulterated. Forget? Pichai is far more concerned with profit
than privacy. To say nothing of top management's apparent willingness
to cooperate with dictators to line corporate coffers.

"If Google moves forward
with Dragonfly, it could allow the company to reenter China’s online search
market after nearly a decade. But Google’s plans in China have drawn the
scrutiny of U.S. lawmakers who have accused the company of being evasive
about the prototype search engine. More broadly, the tech industry is facing
an intense backlash over its data privacy practices, with some members
of Congress proposing legislation that would place new restrictions on
how tech companies collect and use customer data."

Hopefully, when Democrats
retake the House in January something will come of this. Then again,
think Democrats aren't also lining their pockets off the corporate management
suite?

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11-30-18

The following is likely
highly indicative of what's to come in January when the House change's
hands. LOL. CBS News reports:

"Republican Sen. Lindsey
Graham urged congresswoman-elect and progressive firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
to visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum after she compared the Central
American migrants seeking asylum at the southern border to different groups
of refugees, including Jewish families fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany."

Mighty Aryan arrogant
of the Republican national socialist, fascist, no? LOL. Then
again, the Ocasio-Cortez 'democratic socialist' would have none of it.
LOL. The following exchange is highly indicative of why both extremes
leave the political middle holding the bag, -- figuratively speaking.

"Reacting to news of U.S.
Customs and Border Protection agents using tear gas to repel and disperse
migrants, including women and children, who rushed towards the border fence
between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted
that applying for refugee status in America is not a crime."

That's right. Certainly,
sanctioned not only by federal statutes, but international law as well.
The Trump nazi and his henchmen seem to have conveniently forgotten this.

"It wasn't for Jewish
families fleeing Germany. It wasn't for targeted families fleeing Rwanda.
It wasn't for communities fleeing war-torn Syria," the New York City Democrat
wrote. "And it isn't for those fleeing violence in Central America."

All true, but certainly
drew the ire of the achingly patronizing, condescending Graham nazi.
LOL.

"Responding to her post
on Monday, Graham, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, said his future
colleague should "take a tour" of the Holocaust Museum in Washington to
"better understand the differences between the Holocaust and the caravan
in Tijuana." The congresswoman-elect, known for her use of social media
to rebuke many of her detractors in politics and the media, fired back
later in the day. Replying to Graham's tweet, Ocasio-Cortez wrote that
"the point of such a treasured museum is to bring its lessons to present
day." "This administration has jailed children and violated human rights,"
she added. "Perhaps we should stop pretending that authoritarianism + violence
is a historical event instead of a growing force."

A problem on the Left
as well as the Right. Both extremes result in abject subjugation,
abuse of power, evisceration of liberty.

Then Ocasio-Cortez, figuratively
speaking, opened fire. Guns blazing. Exposed the hypocrisy
of the Graham nazi:

"And the self-described
"democratic socialist" didn't stop there. Ocasio-Cortez offered Graham
a museum recommendation of her own. "While we're recommending museums @LindseyGrahamSC,
I heard your 'joke' about ethnic DNA preferences last month," she wrote,
referring to remarks the senator made on Fox News in October in which he
said it would "terrible" if a DNA test revealed he was Iranian. "Perhaps
you would enjoy a visit (or revisit) to the Smithsonian Museum of African-American
History and Culture (@NMAAHC)," she wrote. "It's a great educational experience."

Indeed. You go
girl! LOL. Stick it to the fascist bastard, madam.
... Just remember, Marxist communism miserably failed in the former Soviet
Union some 25 years ago.

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11-30-18

Plot thickens. NPR
reports:

"Lawyers working for special
counsel Robert Mueller told a federal judge Monday that former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort had "breached the plea agreement" he reached with
the government and that the judge should prepare to sentence him. Government
attorneys said Manafort committed new federal crimes "by lying to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel's Office on a variety of
subject matters." The special counsel team's court filing provided no details
about the prevarication."

The Washington Post
reports:

"Prosecutors with special
counsel Robert S. Mueller III said Monday that Paul Manafort breached his
plea agreement, accusing President Trump’s former campaign chairman of
lying repeatedly to them in their investigation into Russian interference
in the 2016 election. Manafort denied doing so intentionally, but both
sides agreed in a court filing that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson
of the District should set sentencing immediately. The apparent collapse
of Manafort’s cooperation agreement is the latest stunning turnaround in
his case, exposing the longtime Republican consultant to at least a decade
behind bars after he pleaded guilty in September to charges of cheating
the Internal Revenue Service, violating foreign-lobbying laws and attempting
to obstruct justice."

ABC News reports:

"Lawyers for former Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort have briefed President Donald Trump's legal
team on what Manafort has told special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors,
the president's lead attorney told ABC News Wednesday. "They share with
me the things that pertain to our part of the case," Rudy Giuliani said."

So you and the Trump nazi
can obstruct the investigation?

NBC News reports:

"Special counsel Robert
Mueller is treating former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
"like a terrorist," the president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told
NBC News on Wednesday. The New York Times reported Tuesday that one of
Manafort's attorneys briefed Trump's lawyers on his client’s conversations
and details of his cooperation with the special counsel. Responding to
that story by text, Giuliani accused the special counsel's office of treating
"Manafort like he's a terrorist, incarcerating him before trial, solitary
incarceration and repeated questioning."

Here's the truth as reported
by NBC:

"Manafort's treatment
amid prosecution was hardly draconian: In his first Virginia jail, he had
a private bathroom in his private jail cell thanks to his high-profile
status and was reportedly allowed to have a laptop to review evidence.
An alleged terrorist would have far fewer privileges and even limited attorney
visits. What's more, he was initially released on bail but was returned
to jail to await trial after violating his bail agreement for witness tampering."

In another article, NBC
reports:

"President Donald Trump's
lawyer has acknowledged that he received briefings from attorneys for Paul
Manafort while Manafort was cooperating with Robert Mueller, an unusual
development that legal experts say raises the specter of witness tampering
and obstruction of justice. Trump's chief defense lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,
told the Associated Press that Manafort's attorneys had been briefing him,
a fact first reported by The New York Times, to whom Giuliani also confirmed
the briefings. "They share with me the things that pertain to our part
of the case," Giuliani told the AP. He declined to make the same acknowledgment
to NBC News, but he did not dispute the reporting. Some legal experts believe
that the feeding of information by Manafort's lawyers to the Trump legal
team could amount to obstruction of justice or witness tampering, if Manafort
disclosed confidential information or the president's side discussed the
possibility of a pardon. But that would depend on exactly what was said.
If Mueller decides to investigate, the Trump team could be in for an unpleasant
surprise. Legal experts told NBC News the conversations among the lawyers
would not be covered by attorney-client privilege — meaning Mueller in
theory could haul Giuliani before the grand jury and force him to testify
under oath about them. "If you are trying to corruptly influence his testimony
by dangling a pardon, that could be witness tampering," Daniel Goldman,
a former federal prosecutor who is now an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst,
said on Andrea Mitchell Reports."

What webs we weave.

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11-30-18

A racist nazi will take
her seat in the Senate. NPR reports:

"Republican Sen. Cindy
Hyde-Smith is the projected winner of the Senate runoff in Mississippi,
according to The Associated Press, overcoming a series of missteps that
brought the state's dark history of racism and violence to the forefront.
Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the Senate earlier this year after GOP
Sen. Thad Cochran stepped down due to health reasons, defeated former congressman
and Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Neither candidate had won the requisite
50 percent in the first round of the special election on Election Day.
She's the first woman elected to the Senate from Mississippi. Hyde-Smith
was the favorite in the solidly red state, and the final Senate election
of 2018 was long seen as an afterthought. But when video surfaced earlier
this month of the senator telling a supporter, "If he invited me to a public
hanging, I'd be on the front row," the state's racial wounds were re-opened."

Delusionally believe this
woman is not a racist? Wake up. Remove your head from
your ass.

"Mississippi is a state
with a past rife with violence — and lynchings — through the Jim Crow era,
and racial tensions still persist today in many places. The comments from
Hyde-Smith, who is white, were quickly seized upon by Espy, who was vying
to become not only the first Democrat the state had elected to the Senate
in nearly four decades, but also the first African-American senator from
the state since Reconstruction. Republicans even privately acknowledged
that Hyde-Smith mangled her response to the video, and it wasn't until
a debate last week that she offered a qualified apology. She said she was
sorry to anyone who was offended by her remarks, but then blamed Espy for
twisting her words for political gain."

Excuses for the inexcusable.
By a lying, disingenuous piece of crap.

"Other questions about
Hyde-Smith's past also arose — photos of her touring the home of Confederate
President Jefferson Davis with a caption that said, "Mississippi history
at its best!"; a measure she'd once pushed in the state Senate for revisionist
view of the Civil War as "The War Between the States"; and news that she'd
attended an all-white private school like those founded in the South to
circumvent integration decrees."

A racist nazi.

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11-30-18

What's Trump hiding?
CBS News reports:

"CIA Director Gina Haspel
was conspicuously absent from a Capitol Hill briefing on military aid to
Saudi Arabia Wednesday, a decision Democratic Whip Dick Durbin said Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told senators was
at the White House's direction. "We asked why Gina Haspel wasn't
there and the two that were there said that was a decision by the White
House," Durbin told reporters following the briefing. Trump ally Republican
Sen. Lindsey Graham threatened he wouldn't vote for a spending bill until
he hears from the CIA directly, and said he already told the president
that. "If that briefing is not given soon, it's going to be hard for me
to vote for any spending bill," Graham told reporters, adding when asked
for clarification, "I'm talking about any key vote anything you need me
for to get out of town, I ain't doing it until we hear from the CIA."

Think this administration
is not in disarray? Get this:

"The explanation offered
Wednesday for Haspel's absence flatly contradicted national security adviser
John Bolton on Tuesday — Bolton claimed the White House was not blocking
Haspel from testifying. Haspel is the sole official of the three reported
to have listened to the audio that allegedly depicts the killing of Jamal
Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist was killed by Saudi operatives in the Saudi
consulate in Istanbul last month. The briefing with Pompeo, Mattis and
senators on Capitol Hill Wednesday comes ahead of a vote they're expected
to take on cutting off military aid to Saudi Arabia for a war in Yemen.
Pompeo and Mattis argued Wednesday that U.S. involvement there is critical
— but both Republican and Democratic senators who spoke with reporters
after the briefing seemed less convinced of that.

"Senators were visibly
frustrated with Haspel's absence. "I wish she would have been there, a
lot of us were frustrated that she wasn't," Republican Sen. Jeff Flake
said, adding, "Nobody was happy that she wasn't there, put it that way."
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, called it "outrageous" that the Senate
would be stonewalled from hearing from the CIA director. "It tells me volumes
about what's really going on here," Menendez said. Pressed twice by reporters
on why Haspel didn't appear, Pompeo responded twice: "I was asked to be
here, and I'm here."

Jesus Christ. Doesn't
look good, does it?

Gets worse. Get
this. ABC News reports:

"President Trump on Wednesday
used his Twitter account to promote a false claim on immigration, and retweeted
a post from a pro-Trump account that calls for deputy attorney general
Rod Rosenstein, former law enforcement officials and other political opponents
of the president to be put on trial for 'treason.' Minutes after tweeting,
without evidence, that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators are
"viciously telling witnesses to lie about facts," the president began a
series of retweets of the account '@The_Trump_Train.' Among the retweets
was a graphic showing multiple individuals the president has targeted in
his comments against the Russia investigation, including Mueller, former
President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Loretta
Lynch, and former FBI director James Comey. The graphic suggests that all
should be investigated for "treason," but it also includes a picture of
current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Frightening, isn't it?
Think this guy's playing with a full deck? Comfortable with his finger
figuratively on the nuclear button?

"The White House did not
immediately respond to a request for comment on whether the president believes
Rosenstein or the others should truly be put on trial for treason. Trump
in the past has suggested his desire to fire Rosenstein who oversaw the
special counsel investigation prior to the firing of Attorney General Jeff
Sessions, but more recently he has indicated their relationship has improved.
Immediately after sharing the graphic, the president continued retweeting
the account, including a tweet that spread a false claim that "Illegals
can get up to $3,874 a month under Federal Assistance program."

"Illegals
can get up to $3,874 a month under Federal Assistance program. Our social
security checks are on average $1200 a month.

"RT
if you agree: If you weren't born in the United States, you should receive
$0 assistance. —
The Trump Train ?????? (@The_Trump_Train) November 28, 2018"

Get this:

"The claim in the tweet
appears to originate from a post that gained notoriety on Facebook in 2017,
that showed a document of a $3,874 payment not to an undocumented immigrant
-- but a family of five refugees who applied for residency through a resettlement
program. But the alleged payment was part of a resettlement request made
in Canada, not the United States. The White House didn't immediately respond
to a request for comment on whether the president was made aware of the
error."

Imagine being a member
of the White House staff and having to deal with this? This man is
not rational. Seems to be sadly losing ground.

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11-30-18

Think we don't have a
world-wide problem with plastic that's not affecting the environment, wildlife?
CBS News reports:

"A dead whale that washed
ashore in eastern Indonesia had a large lump of plastic waste in its stomach,
including drinking 115 plastic cups and two flip-flops, a park official
said Tuesday. The discovery caused concern among environmentalists and
government officials in one of the world's largest plastic polluting countries.
Rescuers from Wakatobi National Park found the rotting carcass of the 31-foot
sperm whale late Monday near the park in Southeast Sulawesi province. They
had received a report from environmentalists that villagers surrounded
the dead whale and were beginning to butcher the rotting carcass, park
chief Heri Santoso said. Santoso said researchers from wildlife conservation
group WWF and the park's conservation academy found about 13 pounds of
plastic waste in the animal's stomach, including four plastic bottles,
25 plastic bags, a nylon sack and more than 1,000 other assorted pieces
of plastic. "Although we have not been able to deduce the cause of death,
the facts that we see are truly awful," said Dwi Suprapti, a marine species
conservation coordinator at WWF Indonesia. She said it was not possible
to determine if the plastic had caused the whale's death because of the
animal's advanced state of decay. Indonesia, an archipelago of 260 million
people, is the world's second-largest plastic polluter after China, according
to a study published in the journal Science in January. It produces 3.2
million tons of mismanaged plastic waste a year, of which 1.29 million
tons ends up in the ocean, the study said."

Need to smarten up.
Before too late.

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11-30-18

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

"An Arizona jury on Wednesday
acquitted a U.S. Border Patrol agent of manslaughter in the shooting of
a Mexican teen through a border fence, another loss for federal prosecutors
after the second trial in the 2012 killing. Jurors in Tucson found Lonnie
Swartz not guilty of involuntary manslaughter. It comes months after he
was acquitted of second-degree murder by another jury that had deadlocked
on manslaughter charges, allowing prosecutors to pursue the case again."

The public is achingly
stupid. Exponentially losing ground during the Trump regime.
Forget? 'Stupid is as stupid does.'

"Border Patrol agents
are rarely criminally charged for using force. But the killing of 16-year-old
Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez sparked outrage on both sides of the border
and came at a time when the agency was increasingly scrutinized for its
use of force. Prosecutors said Swartz was frustrated over repeated encounters
with people on the Mexico side of the border fence who throw rocks at agents
to distract them from smugglers. They say he lost his cool and fatally
shot Elena Rodriguez. Swartz fired some 16 rounds, and the boy was hit
at least 10 times in the back and head."

"Swartz has said he was
following his training and defending himself and other law enforcement
officers from rocks, which he said could be deadly. Prosecutors acknowledge
that Elena Rodriguez was throwing rocks at agents while two smugglers made
their way back to Mexico, but they said that wasn't justification for taking
his life. Swartz's attorney, Sean Chapman, said Elena Rodriguez endangered
the lives of the agents and a police officer who was on scene."

All the bastard and his
henchmen had to do was move further away from the fence. Instead,
this gutless piece of shit chose to murder.

"In addition to the criminal
charges, Swartz is facing a civil rights lawsuit from the American Civil
Liberties Union on behalf of the teen's mother."

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11-23-18

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

In yet another blow to
the Trump nazi and the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, NPR reports:

"An appellate court in
Brooklyn ruled Wednesday that local police officers in New York state can't
hold immigrants in custody beyond their release date solely to turn them
over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement without a judicial warrant."

"The case involved Susai
Francis, an Indian national living on Long Island who overstayed a visa
in the 1990s. After an arrest in Nassau County in June 2017, for driving
under the influence, he was transferred to Suffolk County to complete a
different proceeding there involving a criminal charge. In December, he
pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was sentence to time served. But
instead of letting him leave court, Suffolk police rearrested him at the
request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was taken to a jail
cell in Riverhead, rented by ICE. On Wednesday, a three-judge appellate
court panel found this violated state law because the Suffolk police went
beyond their authority. ICE detainers ask police to hold someone already
in custody for 48 hours, to facilitate a transfer. By putting Francis back
in jail, the court found Suffolk went too far. "[L]ocal law enforcement
officers are not authorized to effectuate arrests for civil law immigration
violations," the ruling said. The court found they could, however, if ICE
showed them a warrant signed by a judge."

Fascinating, isn't it?

"The case was brought
by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which says ICE issued about 800
detainer requests to the Nassau and Suffolk county sheriffs last year.
Associate Legal Director Chris Dunn said the ruling set a precedent because
it applies to all local police, statewide.

"No New York state law
enforcement official has any authority to arrest and detain an immigrant
to deliver to ICE merely upon the request of ICE," he said. "That practice
has to end not only in Suffolk County but in Nassau County and all around
the state."

If there is no due process
afforded this individual, there is no due process for any of us. Wake
up. Out of control law enforcement presents an exigent threat
to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
... Right, Sheriff? "Sonny Boy? Madam County Attorney?

"He estimated that hundreds
of immigrants have been arrested this way in Suffolk in the past year."

"New York City does not
honor requests from ICE to detain immigrants for 48 hours if they're in
jail or police custody, unless they've been convicted of a serious crime
or there's a judicial warrant. Detainer requests shot up in New York City
last year but most were not honored. According to Newsday, Suffolk County
began letting police arrest and detain people for ICE under the previous
sheriff, after President Trump was elected, but the current sheriff announced
he would end the policy after the ruling on Wednesday. The ruling does
not affect Francis, who is now in ICE detention in New Jersey. The Department
of Justice had filed a friend of the court brief supporting Suffolk in
the lawsuit. It said it is harder for ICE to detain removable immigrants
without local cooperation."

Tough shit.
Follow the rule of law, United States Constitution. Don't like the
law? Change it. Don't like the Constitution? Amend it.
Don't jackbooted nazi make it up as you go along. Called treason.
... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American
revolution catastrophically looming.

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11-23-18

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

Think the criminal jackbooted
bastards in blue are doing their job? Wake up. You've
been bamboozled. Sold a phony bill of goods. Drank the Kool
Aide. NPR reports:

"It sounds like a simple
question for a police department. How many Native American women have gone
missing or been murdered in a given city? In Seattle, say. Or Albuquerque.
Or Salt Lake City. Or Baltimore. But when researchers Abigail Echo-Hawk
and Annita Lucchesi asked 71 cities across the U.S. for the answer, they
found more silence and confusion than answers. In a report released Wednesday,
Echo-Hawk and Lucchesi say nearly 60 percent of police departments either
did not respond to the request, or returned partial or compromised data
— with some cities reporting an inability to identify Native victims, and
others relying exclusively on human memory. Searching news outlets to fill
in the gaps was no solution: Of the 506 disappearances and murders they
were able to document, the majority were never covered by any news outlet.
As a result, the missing and murdered indigenous women have disappeared
"not once, but three times," the researchers write: "in life, in the media,
and in the data."

Fascinating, isn't it?
Achingly, catastrophic as well.

"Echo-Hawk, an enrolled
citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, is the director of the Urban
Indian Health Institute at the Seattle Indian Health Board. Lucchesi, a
descendent of the Cheyenne people, is a doctoral intern at the UIHI, which
researches public health issues among Native American populations nationwide."

Both highly qualified
to do this research.

"Lucchesi has been working
for years to document the deaths and disappearances of Native American
women. A previous project of hers — a database of missing and murdered
indigenous women in both Canada and the U.S. — was profiled for NPR this
summer by Yellowstone Public Radio's Nate Hegyi. Native women living on
tribal lands are murdered at an extremely high rate — in some communities,
more than 10 times the national average, according to research funded by
the Department of Justice. And in part because of jurisdictional challenges,
the disappearances can be hard to track and prosecute. But the new project
is unique because of its focus on cities. The UIHI notes that more than
70 percent of Native Americans in the U.S. live in urban areas. "So much
of the conversation on this issue has been focused on reservations," Lucchesi
says. "This is happening to our urban women too. It isn't just a matter
of jurisdiction — it's a matter of racism."

No question. Forget?
The American Way. Certainly, now, in Nazi America.

"As Hegyi wrote this summer,
"spend time in Indian Country and you'll hear this story over and over:
A niece, a daughter or a cousin who was taken quickly and violently from
this world." But no federal agency has comprehensive data on how many indigenous
women are murdered or missing. A spokesman for the FBI's Criminal Justice
Information Services division declined to comment to NPR on the issue."

Imagine that. Surprised?
Why?

"In the U.S., Echo-Hawk
and Lucchesi are calling for resources to be dedicated to the issue (their
study was conducted without federal funding) and for local law enforcement
agencies to carry out better data collection. "Record-keeping protocols
must be updated and implemented immediately," they concluded. "No agency
can adequately respond to violence it does not track."

Problem throughout all
law enforcement. Across the board. Includes all races.

"On Wednesday, a bill
designed to help address the problem passed through the Senate Committee
on Indian Affairs and is heading to the full Senate for consideration.
The measure, called Savanna's Act, calls for new protocols on reporting
crimes against Native Americans, among other improvements."

Good start, but nowhere
near enough.

"To augment the partial
police data, Echo-Hawk and Lucchesi searched media reports and spoke with
local indigenous communities — in the process, finding more than 150 missing
and murdered women that police did not identify. They ultimately identified
506 missing and murdered indigenous women in those 71 cities. But they
caution, given the significant limitations of the data, that it's far short
of the true total. "The 506 are just the ones we know about ... it's just
the beginning. It's barely scratched the surface," Echo-Hawk says. "I know
that there are hundreds, thousands and more that aren't in this data and
haven't been captured."

"Lucchesi — who herself
survived rapes and violent attacks in four of the cities featured in the
report — says this work is both frustrating and empowering. "It's heartbreaking
to spend an entire year trying to convince 72 police departments that your
dead are worth counting," she says. "But this work has also been healing
for me as a survivor of violence." "Constantly reaffirming that the lives
of your sisters and your relatives do mean something — it also reaffirms
to me, myself, that my life does mean something," Lucchesi says."

The Trump nazi, his henchmen,
fellow GOP national socialists, fascists, to say nothing of his deluded
sick sycophants are ferociously reminded our UNDOCUMENTED European forebears
came to this continent some six centuries ago, STOLE this land from its
native inhabitants, then proceeded to BREAK every goddamned treaty ever
signed.

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"President Trump is throwing
his support behind legislation that could shorten sentences for some drug
offenders and help prisoners adjust to life after incarceration."

Enlightenment?
Couldn't be, could it? LOL.

"Details of the measure
have not been officially released, but Trump said Wednesday the bill will
provide incentives for prisoners to participate in training or rehabilitation
programs with a goal of reducing recidivism. It will also include measures
to address sentencing disparities and inequities. "Americans across the
political spectrum can unite around prison reform legislation that will
reduce crime, while giving our fellow citizens a chance at redemption,"
the president said. Trump added that he is ready to sign the bill into
law whenever it reaches his desk."

Believe it when I see
it. Then again, if Trump is indeed telling the truth, will certainly
give credit when credit is due.

"Legislation that passed
the House of Representatives in May included measures targeting recidivism
after incarceration, but did not include sentencing provisions. That was
a sticking point for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who helms the Senate
Judiciary Committee. Grassley, of Iowa, had previously backed more comprehensive
measures. Grassley, who joined Trump at the White House for Wednesday's
announcement, has been working with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and others
to put forward legislation that addresses sentencing and changes prison
policies. "We are grateful for the White House's ongoing engagement to
make these long overdue reforms a reality," Grassley and Durbin said in
a statement."

Republican national socialists
have been mindless, clueless proponents of draconian law and order since
the Nixon nazi nearly a half-century ago. Seem to have conveniently
forgotten prison should be reserved for those who remain habitual offenders,
and/or present a continuing, ongoing, exigent threat to society.
-- Far better ways to handle the criminal element such as now being considered
by both major political parties. Bipartisanship possible? Hard
to believe, isn't it? We'll see.

"Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday he told supporters of the criminal
justice package that he can't start counting votes for any legislation
until they finalize the details of an agreement. A vote count is key to
any decision by McConnell to allow a bill to come up on the Senate floor.
"We don't have a whole lot of time left," McConnell said. "But the first
step is to finalize what proponents are actually for."

The impediment to desperately
needed change is seasoned old farts like McConnell, Pelosi, and many, many
others in both parties.

"Trump's support is a
big win for activists who have been pushing for criminal justice measures
to roll back the stiff penalties imposed as a part of America's decades-long
"war on drugs."

Use drugs? You're
achingly stupid. Hopelessly, dysfunctional. Ferociously to
the point, however? Drug prohibition, as alcohol prohibition, has
been a massive failure. Forget? Alcohol prohibition gave us
the Mafia. Drug prohibition gave us gangs, worse, corrupted to at
least some extent every law enforcement agency in our formerly great country.

Enforcement should be
reserved for the underaged. Sufficient laws are already on the books
to handle ancillary effects of adult drug use such as DWI, public intoxication,
assault, etc.. Time to finally smarten up. Take the enormous
money out of drug trafficking. Find better, more creative ways of
handling this scourge.

"Supporters of changing
the sentencing provisions argue that mandatory minimum sentences and other
policies have disproportionately affected African-American and Hispanic
communities, while doing little to curb crime."

"Trump's endorsement is
critical for getting the Republican support necessary to get a bill passed
during the lame-duck session, said Mark Holden, general counsel to Koch
Industries, which has been pushing for the changes. "It always matters
if the president is on board ... but this president, in particular, it's
important that he gets behind it," Holden said. "This is an issue that
some Republicans haven't always been focused on."

"During his announcement
about the criminal justice bill, Trump said his administration will work
to keep dangerous criminals off the streets. But, he said, sometimes people
get caught up in bad circumstances. He talked about the case of Alice Marie
Johnson, who was sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent drug charge.
Trump commuted her sentence after reality TV star Kim Kardashian lobbied
for her release. "I'll never forget the scene of her coming out of prison
after 21 years and greeting her family and everyone was crying," Trump
said. "It was a beautiful thing to see, it was a very tough situation."

Hard to believe coming
from the Trump nazi, isn't it? LOL.

"In a tweet after the
announcement, the president said members of the House and Senate "have
poured their time, heart and energy into the crucial issue."

"I
am grateful to be here today w/ Members of the House & Senate who have
poured their time, heart and energy into the crucial issue of Prison Reform.
Working together w/ my Admin over the last two years, these members have
reached a bipartisan agreement...https://t.co/wflidv2cZr —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2018"

Hopefully, that's true.
Hard to believe, however, Trump is finally making some effort to act presidential.
LOL.

"Jared Kushner, Trump's
son-in-law and a top adviser, has been a driving force in the White House
pushing for changes to the criminal justice system. Kushner, whose father
served time in federal prison, spearheaded the White House effort to get
legislation passed on the issue. The criminal justice effort also got a
boost with the departure of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, an adamant
opponent of changing existing rules and principles governing sentencing."

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11-23-18

Once again, Trump has
disgraced himself and our formerly great country. The Washington
Post reports:

"President Trump on Thursday
lashed out anew at the investigation of special counsel Robert S. Mueller
III, calling his team of lawyers “a disgrace to our Nation” and accusing
them, without evidence, of threatening witnesses to get answers they want."

Trump remains a congenital
liar. How do you know he's lying? Lips move.

"Trump’s rant, in a pair
of morning tweets, came a week after the installation of Matthew G. Whitaker
as acting attorney general, a move many Democrats have said appears designed
to curtail Mueller’s investigation into possible coordination between Russia
and Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election."

If Mueller gets fired,
would be the beginning of the end of the Trump Administration. Obstruction
of justice would not be tolerated. Would immediately trigger a constitutional
crisis.

"The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess. They
have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming
and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with the answers
they want. They are a disgrace to our Nation and don’t... —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2018

....care
how many lives the[y]
ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller,
who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad
acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN
AMERICAN HISTORY! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2018"

Trump's delusional continual
rants have no basis in reality. Certainly demonstrate, however, his
increasing desperation. Unfitness for office.

"In his tweets, Trump
misstated Mueller’s background. A registered Republican, he was nominated
to be FBI director in 2001 by President George W. Bush. In 2011, President
Barack Obama gave his original 10-year term a two-year extension. Mueller
was tapped to be special counsel last year by Deputy Attorney General Rod
J. Rosenstein, who started overseeing the Russia investigation after Sessions
recused himself, citing his role in Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign."

Trump has no credibility.
None. Worse? Losing ground.

"During an appearance
Thursday morning on CNN, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he is concerned
that Trump’s description of the “inner workings” of the Mueller investigation
could signal that Whitaker is inappropriately sharing details about it
with the president. “Of course with this president, we don’t know. He may
have simply made that up because he lies all the time,” said Nadler, who
is in line to become chairman of the Judiciary Committee when Democrats
take control of the House in January. Nadler said it appears to him that
Whitaker was appointed with the “express purpose of being a hatchet man
to sabotage this investigation.”

Certainly, appears so.

"More than two hours after
his initial tweets Wednesday about the Mueller investigation, Trump returned
to the subject later, accusing Mueller of protecting 2016 Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton, several former FBI officials and “all of his friends
on the other side.”

"Universities
will someday study what highly conflicted (and NOT Senate approved) Bob
Mueller and his gang of Democrat thugs have done to destroy people. Why
is he protecting Crooked Hillary, Comey, McCabe, Lisa Page & her lover,
Peter S, and all of his friends on the other side? —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2018

“Mueller’s job is not
one that requires Senate approval. Trump did not spell out why he thinks
Mueller is “highly conflicted.”

How could he? No
substance to the allegation. Trump continues to talk out the ass.
A congenital liar.

"The
only “Collusion” is that of the Democrats with Russia and many others.
Why didn’t the FBI take the Server from the DNC? They still don’t have
it. Check out how biased Facebook, Google and Twitter are in favor of the
Democrats. That’s the real Collusion! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2018"

No substance. No
element of truth to it. Trump continues to lie out the ass.
Show us the proof, Donny boy. Show us the proof. Do so now.

"Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been blocking a bipartisan effort to protect
Mueller’s investigation through legislation, saying he has seen no evidence
that the White House will shut it down. The bill would give any fired special
counsel the ability to swiftly challenge their termination before a panel
of three federal judges."

Ole Mitch "The Bitch"
is protecting his fuhrer. No other reasonable explanation
for his refusal to take action to protect Mueller. None at all.

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11-23-18

Without question, Trump
is nazifying the judiciary. No question. None at all.
NPR reports:

"In partnership with Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Trump White House has secured lifetime
appointments for 29 appeals court judges and 53 district court judges.
That's not to mention two Supreme Court nominees. "He came into office
with a mandate to nominate judges in the mold of Justice [Antonin] Scalia
and Justice [Clarence] Thomas," said Carrie Severino, chief counsel at
the Judicial Crisis Network, which advocates for conservative judges. "That
was a key reason he won the presidency." Supporters will celebrate that
record this week at the annual convention of the Federalist Society, whose
primary mission is to place conservatives on the courts."

Simply, not true.
They're not conservatives. They're GOP national socialists,
fascists, nazis. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined
as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified'
by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"The effort is so important
to the Republican legal community and the party's voting base that lawmakers
have been holding hearings for nominees while the Senate was in recess,
aiming to confirm those candidates in the lame-duck session scheduled before
the end of the year."

No more than a deliberate
concerted effort to place GOP nazis on the bench to legislate their outrageously
perverse ideological and religious beliefs on the rest of us. These
clueless, achingly fascist bastards present an exigent threat to life,
liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Yet,
Democrats continue to traitorously allow this shit to continue unabated.

"Critics call this an
abuse of the system and point out that all the Trump picks for the appeals
courts and the Supreme Court tend to have something in common: most of
them are white men. "Of his 43 appellate nominations, none are African-American,"
said Vanita Gupta of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.
"None are Latino. Only nine are women. Our nation's great diversity should
be reflected in its government institutions, especially the federal judiciary,
which serves as the guardian of our rights and liberties."

Surprised? Why?
To be expected of the nazi element. Trump is certainly doing all
he can to resurrect Hitler's Third Reich to Trump's Fourth.
Forget? We already live in a de facto fascist police-state since
9/11. USA 'Patriot' Act, 'Real' ID Act, Homeland 'Security' Act,
etc.. List can go on and on.

-- Despite the fact the
Bush nazi could have prevented the 9/11 catastrophe had the State Department
done full background checks on the 19 terrorists. Heeded warnings
of the flight schools the bastards wished to only learn how to fly straight
and level, not take off and land. Instead, nazis in both major political
parties took the opportunity to take a raucous hard dump on the Bill of
Rights. Traitors. Gutless traitors. Both
major political parties.

"Also notable, said Democratic
Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, is that the Republican-controlled Senate
limited President Barack Obama to two circuit court judge confirmations
and 22 district court nominations during his final two years in office.
Obama's choice for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, never got a hearing."

Indeed. Nazi element,
however, remains incapable of being confused by the truth. ... Hear
the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically
looming.

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11-23-18

The First Amendment is
abundantly clear. So is the Fifth. NPR reports:

"A federal judge in Washington
ruled Friday in favor of CNN in a decision that represents the first legal
blows between Trump and the news media. Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee,
ordered the White House to restore correspondent Jim Acosta's press credentials.
"Each day he [Acosta] is deprived ... suffers a harm that cannot be remedied
in retrospect," Kelly said."

Indeed. No question.
Public's right to know suffers as well.

"This is not the end of
the road in this fight. The judge told attorneys for the Trump administration
that the White House has to establish standardized rules to justify taking
away a pass to cover the White House and wants to hear from both sides
again Tuesday. This was also granted on a limited basis and was not on
First Amendment ground, but the Fifth Amendment's right to due process.
The judge said the White House denied Acosta's right to due process under
the law. Whatever process occurred is "shrouded in mystery," Kelly said.
"I want to thank all of my colleagues in the press who supported us this
week," Acosta said outside the DC courthouse. He thanked the judge for
the decision he made. "Let's get back to work." CNN attorney Ted Boutrous
called it a "great day for the First Amendment and for journalism" (although
the First Amendment was not applied here).

"The lawsuit follows the
Trump administration's decision last week to withdraw White House press
credentials from Acosta after he and President Trump had a testy exchange
during a news conference on Nov. 7. The suit sought the immediate restoration
of Acosta's press pass, arguing on First Amendment grounds that the White
House action was aimed at silencing the journalist. CNN was joined by other
news media organizations, who saw high stakes in the case that could cede
a degree of editorial control to the White House and threaten the ability
of a free press to be a check on presidential power. The Trump administration
argued that the president has broad discretion to strip any reporter of
White House press credentials if he wishes. It argued that the standard
should be whether the reporter was "disorderly," "rude" or "grandstanding."
CNN's lawyers argued that sometimes democracy is "unpleasant" but having
a free press is one of the ways democracies hold governments accountable."

Precise intent of the
Founders.

"Boutrous argued that
the Trump administration's views on the First Amendment are "warped," and
that there's no First Amendment doctrine that says, "Because there are
lots of other reporters you can ban one." President Trump has gone so far
as to call journalists the "enemy of the people" and, at his rallies, crowds
frequently break into chants of "CNN Sucks" as he routinely brands as "fake
news" any coverage he deems unflattering. In particular, he has been enraged
at the media for not giving him more positive coverage after winning the
2016 presidential election. "The press treats me terribly," he told Lesley
Stahl on CBS's 60 Minutes. "I thought very strongly that, you know, the
one great thing will happen is the press will start treating me great [once
he won the presidency]. Lesley, they treat me worse. They got worse instead
of better. Very dishonest. ... I regret that the press treats me so badly."

They report the truth.
... Truth, the Trump nazi cannot withstand or tolerate.

The Washington Post
reports:

"CNN sued President Trump
and other White House officials on Tuesday over the revocation. Kelly’s
ruling was the first legal skirmish in that lawsuit. It has the immediate
effect of sending Acosta back to the White House, pending further arguments
and a possible trial. The litigation is in its early stages, and a trial
could be months in the future. Kelly, whom Trump appointed to the federal
bench last year, handed down his ruling two days after the network and
government lawyers argued over whether the president had the power to exclude
a reporter from the White House."

"In his decision, Kelly
ruled that Acosta’s First Amendment rights overruled the White House’s
right to have orderly news conferences. Kelly said he agreed with the government’s
argument that there was no First Amendment right to come onto the White
House grounds. But, he said, once the White House opened up the grounds
to reporters, the First Amendment applied."

No question. Forget?
This is supposed to be a democratic republic under the United States Constitution.
... No matter what our nazi fuhrer thinks or doesn't think.

"He also agreed with CNN’s
argument that the White House did not provide due process. He said the
White House’s decision-making was “so shrouded in mystery that the government
could not tell me ... who made the decision.” The White House’s later written
arguments for banning Acosta were belated and weren’t sufficient to satisfy
due process, Kelly said."

No one is above the law
and/or the United States Constitution including the Bill of Rights.
No one. Not even our fuhrer, the Trump nazi.

"CNN issued a statement
after the ruling saying, “We are gratified with this result and we look
forward to a full resolution in the coming days. Our sincere thanks to
all who have supported not just CNN, but a free, strong and independent
American press.” Acosta added: “I just want to thank all my colleagues
in the press who supported me this week. I want to thank the judge [for
this ruling]. And let’s go back to work.”

We have no king, queen,
nazi despot sanctioned by the United States Constitution, rule of law.
Forget?

"Acosta watched Friday’s
proceedings from the courtroom in Washington, joined by a team of attorneys
including Ted Olson, a former solicitor general in George W. Bush’s administration,
and Ted Boutrous, a star litigator and media-law specialist. CNN has argued
that the ban on Acosta violated his First Amendment rights because it amounts
to “viewpoint discrimination” — that is, the president is punishing him
for statements and coverage he didn’t like. The network has also said the
action violates Acosta’s Fifth Amendment right to due process because his
exclusion follows no written guidelines or rules and has no appeal or review
procedures."

Proof positive the United
States Constitution, rule of law apply to all. ... Including our
fuhrer,
the Trump nazi.

"CNN had requested “emergency”
relief from the judge, arguing that Acosta’s rights were being violated
with each passing hour. Until the White House’s action last week, no reporter
credentialed to cover the president had ever had a press pass revoked."

Imagine that. Gratifying,
however, to see a Trump-appointed judge uphold the United States Constitution,
rule of law. Clearly, not all goose step in unison with their masters
in the Oval Office, GOP, and the corporate management suite.

A government bought and
paid for shyster, however, did his level best to take a raucous hard dump
on the Constitution, rule of law:

"A government lawyer,
James Burnham, argued in a hearing before Kelly on Wednesday that the president
was within his rights to ban any reporter from the White House at any time,
just as he excludes reporters from interviews in the Oval Office. He said
Acosta could report on the president “just as effectively” by watching
the president on TV or by calling sources within the White House. He also
said CNN wouldn’t be injured by Acosta’s exclusion since CNN has dozens
of other journalists credentialed for the White House. Burnham also explained
that Trump’s rationale for Acosta’s ban was his “rudeness” at last week’s
news conference, in effect arguing that Acosta’s conduct, not his right
to free speech, was the relevant issue."

"The assertions drew a
rebuttal from CNN’s lawyer, Boutrous, who described the ban on the reporter
as arbitrary, capricious and unprecedented. He said White House reporters
need access to the premises to meet with sources and to report on untelevised
“gaggles,” impromptu discussions with press aides and other officials,
so that banning a reporter from the grounds harms his or her ability to
do their job."

Wouldn't want to confuse
a government bought and paid for shyster with the truth, would we?
LOL.

"Media organizations have
been alarmed by the White House’s treatment of Acosta, saying that revoking
his “hard pass” to enter the White House is a threat to other journalists
who might be similarly banned. Trump has suggested other reporters could
face a similar fate if they displease him in some unspecified way. Thirteen
news organizations, including The Washington Post and Fox News, said Wednesday
they would jointly file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting CNN’s position."

Who gives a flying f--k
what our nazi fuhrer thinks or doesn't think? Who gives a
shit whether or not this nazi dictator is offended? Matters not in
a supposedly democratic republic under the United States Constitution.

"The White House Correspondents'
Association, which represents journalists in negotiations over access to
the president, filed its own brief on Thursday that urged the court “to
roundly reject the president’s dangerous legal position.” It disputed the
government’s claim that the president has “absolute, unbridled discretion
to decide who can report from inside the White House.”

Goddamned right.
Forget? The Constitution allows not for kings, queens, special treatment
for nazi despots.

"During the presidential
campaign in 2015 and 2016, Trump banned more than a dozen news organizations
from his rallies and public events, including The Washington Post. But
he said he wouldn’t do something similar as president. Last week, he went
back on that statement."

Our gutless 'president'
can indeed do as he pleases vis a vis political rallies, private events.
Not so in the White House to the press corps covering the fascist son of
a bitch.

"Trump’s 2020 reelection
campaign has used the CNN lawsuit to drum up contributions, portraying
the suit as evidence of “liberal bias” — an assertion Boutrous brought
up on Wednesday to demonstrate that Trump had political reasons for banning
Acosta."

Indeed, he did.
Clearly.

“CNN is SUING President
Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a Secret Service agent, and other White
House officials ... ” the fundraising email says. “... All because they
REVOKED Jim Acosta’s press badge after his continuous grandstanding and
inappropriate refusal to yield to other reporters."

“President Trump will
NOT put up with the media’s liberal bias and utter disrespect for this
Administration and the hardworking Americans who stand with us.”

Direct opposite is the
case in reality. With the exception of Fox News which became an infomercial
for the Trump nazi after he took office, the media is reporting the
truth. Amusingly, now, including CNN. Imagine that.
All the whining and complaining of the Trump nazi, his henchmen, and his
rabid sick sycophants have had the clearly not intended effect of improving
news reporting by this allegedly liberal media outlet. Who'd 'a 'thunk'
it, no? LOL.

The Washington Post
reports:

"CNN and the network’s
chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta have asked a federal judge for
an emergency hearing after the White House sent Acosta a letter saying
it planned to suspend Acosta’s press pass again, just hours after the same
judge ordered the White House to temporarily restore Acosta’s credentials
Friday. Unless the judge extends that 14-day order, it will expire at the
end of the month. In light of the White House’s unexpected action, the
network’s lawyer requested an expedited schedule which would allow the
judge to enter a more lasting preliminary injunction against the White
House. The renewed confrontation represents an unusual escalation in the
court battle between Trump, on the one hand, and CNN and Acosta, both regular
targets of the president’s wrath for reporting on his administration. In
the letter, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and Bill Shine, assistant
to the president and deputy chief of staff for communications, told Acosta
that his behavior at a Nov. 7 news conference “violated the basic standards
governing [news conferences], and is, in our preliminary judgment, sufficient
factual basis to revoke your hard pass."

CBS News reports:

"The White House has restored
the press credentials of CNN's chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta,
and as a result, CNN will drop its lawsuit against the Trump administration,
the network announced. A White House official tells CBS News' Fin Gomez
the White House will not attempt to revoke Acosta's credentials again over
the Nov. 7 exchange between the president and Acosta.

"Today the @WhiteHouse
fully restored @Acosta's press pass. As a result, our lawsuit is no longer
necessary. We look forward to continuing to cover the White House," CNN
tweeted.

"But the White House also
instituted new rules for journalists at press conferences, claiming it
has the right to suspend or revoke a journalist's credentials if they fail
to follow any of the rules. Those three rules include: a journalist called
upon to ask a question will ask a single question and then yield the floor;
a follow-up question will be permitted at the discretion of the president
or the White House and then the journalist must yield the floor; and "yielding
the floor" includes if necessary physically surrendering the microphone,
according to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders."

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11-23-18

The following is inexplicable.
At the very least, total break down of discipline. At worst, proof
positive vetting of our best and brightest to serve in the military is
severely challenged. Not talking about low level military personnel,
however, but the most elite. CBS News reports:

"Two U.S. Navy SEALs and
two Marines have been charged in the strangulation death of an Army Green
Beret while the service members were stationed in the African country of
Mali last year, the Navy said on Thursday. Charging documents describe
a situation in which some of the nation's most elite military personnel
- including two members of the famed SEAL Team Six - broke into a Green
Beret's bedroom while he was sleeping, bound him with duct tape and put
him into a choke hold. The charges do not allege a specific motive. But
the counts filed against the four men range from felony murder to involuntary
manslaughter. They also have been charged with hazing. The Navy has also
accused them of obstructing justice after the Green Beret's death: Officials
said the men disposed of alcohol that was kept in quarters shared by sailors
and Marines and also lied to Navy commanders and investigators."

Consider the following:

"The man who died was
Army Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar, a native of Lubbock, Texas. He had deployed
to Afghanistan twice before his death in Bamako, Mali, in June 2017, Army
officials said. Melgar was a member of the same special forces group as
the four Americans who were killed while on patrol in Niger last year,
CBS News correspondent David Martin reported. The Islamic State of Iraq
and Syria (ISIS) fighters who ambushed and killed the four soldiers were
based in Mali and escaped back across the border."

Long-term readers will
recall this ambush was covered here in this publication and elsewhere at
the time.

"The names of the service
members who have been charged are redacted in the charging documents. Beth
Baker, a Navy spokeswoman, said the Navy is prohibited at this time from
releasing the names of the accused as well as their civilian lawyers. The
service members are not in confinement, Baker said."

Inexplicable, isn't it?

"The two Marines are listed
as being part of Special Operations Command. The SEALs belong to the Navy
Special Warfare Development Group. The unit is better known as SEAL Team
6, which participated in the May 2011 raid that killed al-Qaida leader
Osama bin Laden at his compound. The two SEALs are based in Virginia Beach.
A preliminary hearing to review the case against all four service members
is scheduled for Dec. 10 at a Navy base in nearby Norfolk. The Naval Criminal
Investigative Service conducted the investigation."

Needless to say, this
case will be closely followed here and elsewhere.

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11-23-18

As clearly illustrated
by the above, the military certainly has its problems. Following?
Achingly, inexplicable. Certainly, indicative of systemic failure
of adequate oversight by Congress. ... To say the very least.
NBC News reports:

"The Defense Department
has failed an audit almost three decades in the making, the Pentagon's
No. 2 official said Thursday. But the results were expected and showed
what the agency already knew — that "more work lies ahead of us."

No kidding. You
think? LOL.

"Congress first required
the Defense Department to undertake a comprehensive audit in 1990, but
the agency didn't manage to get around to it until late last year."

Gross failure of Congress
since 1776. No excuse. Worse? More outrageous?
Get this:

"Everyone was betting
against us that we would even do the audit," Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick
Shanahan told reporters, adding: "It was an audit on a $2.7 trillion organization.
The fact we did the audit is substantial."

Jesus Christ. Who
the f--k is minding the store? Near trillion-dollar yearly gross
mismanagement of taxpayer dollars.

More inexplicable?
Get this:

"The announcement came
a day after the National Defense Strategy Commission, an independent agency
appointed by Congress, reported that the Defense Department isn't financially
or strategically set up to wage two wars at once and could even lose a
war against China or Russia individually. "The U.S. military could suffer
unacceptably high casualties and loss of major capital assets in its next
conflict," it said."

We've lost ourselves.

"The audit itself and
an inspector general's report on it aren't expected to be released until
later Thursday at the earliest. But in a preview for reporters, Shanahan
said: "We failed the audit, but we never expected to pass it." After the
briefing, a Defense Department spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Joseph Buccino,
clarified in an email to Reuters that "the audit is not a 'pass-fail' process."
"We did not receive an 'adverse' finding — the lowest possible category
— in any area," Buccino told Reuters. "We did receive findings of 'disclaimer'
in multiple areas. Clearly more work lies ahead of us." Shanahan said the
Defense Department had been getting preliminary findings since the massive
audit began — involving 1,200 auditors counting and assessing equipment,
property, accounts and spending across 21 Pentagon agencies — and was already
at work on taking corrective action."

Massive failure of congressional
oversight. At the very least, decades in the making. Where's
all the loot? In the pockets of traitorous corporate war profiteers?
Who in turn lined the pockets of traitorous, treasonous members of Congress?

"Major issues the audits
highlight include compliance with cybersecurity policies and improving
inventory accuracy, Shanahan said. He didn't say how much money was unaccounted
for."

Why not?
Taxpayers are entitled to know.

"Some of the compliance
issues are irritating to me," he said. "Some of those things frustrated
me because we have a job to do; we just need to follow our procedures."

"Asked whether the audit
could undermine public confidence in the Defense Department, Shanahan said,
"We count ships right." He said he hoped taxpayers would conclude: "'Good.
I’m glad you guys are putting in the discipline.'"

Jesus Christ. We've
lost our country.

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11-23-18

Think anything will come
of it? The Washington Post reports:

"The CIA has concluded
that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of
journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi
government’s claims that he was not involved in the killing, according
to people familiar with the matter. The CIA’s assessment, in which officials
have said they have high confidence, is the most definitive to date linking
Mohammed to the operation and complicates the Trump administration’s efforts
to preserve its relationship with a close ally. A team of 15 Saudi agents
flew to Istanbul on government aircraft in October and killed Khashoggi
inside the Saudi Consulate, where he had gone to pick up documents that
he needed for his planned marriage to a Turkish woman. In reaching its
conclusions, the CIA examined multiple sources of intelligence, including
a phone call that the prince’s brother Khalid bin Salman, the Saudi ambassador
to the United States, had with Khashoggi, according to the people familiar
with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the
intelligence. Khalid told Khashoggi, a contributing columnist to The Washington
Post, that he should go to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul to retrieve
the documents and gave him assurances that it would be safe to do so. It
is not clear if Khalid knew that Khashoggi would be killed, but he made
the call at his brother’s direction, according to the people familiar with
the call, which was intercepted by U.S. intelligence."

NPR reports:

"Speaking on Saturday,
President Trump emphasized that Saudi Arabia was "a truly spectacular ally"
in terms of business and economic development."

Think so? They've
been f--king American drivers since January 1973 when gasoline prices doubled
overnight. Wake up. Worse? Forget? At least
some of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis. Other Saudis in this country
at the time of the attack were allowed to leave even though air traffic
had been suspended. Wake up. You've been bamboozled.

"Regarding the crown prince,
who has a close relationship with his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Trump
said, "As of this moment, we were told that he did not play a role, we're
gonna have to find out what they say." He said the CIA will be speaking
with him as he travels on Saturday. That contradicts what Harris told NPR.
"We should note too that the president has been briefed on the CIA's findings
and what we understand is that he keeps resisting them because he doesn't
have, I guess, the smoking gun. He keeps asking, 'Well where is the body?'
Or, show the me definitive proof that Mohammed bin Salman ordered this."

So what else is new?
Forget? Trump's a congenital liar. Has his own agenda.

"NPR has not independently
confirmed the Post's reporting, which cites unnamed sources. The CIA declined
to comment to NPR."

The Saudis continue to
deny all:

"The crown prince's brother
Khalid bin Salman took to Twitter on Friday to deny the phone call between
him and the slain journalist, saying the only communication the two men
had was "via text on Oct. 26, 2017." "I never talked to him by phone and
certainly never suggested he go to Turkey for any reason. I ask the U.S.
government to release any information regarding this claim," Khalid bin
Salman said in a tweet.

"As
we told the Washington Post the last contact I had with Mr. Khashoggi was
via text on Oct 26 2017. I never talked to him by phone and certainly never
suggested he go to Turkey for any reason. I ask the US government to release
any information regarding this claim. —
Khalid bin Salman (@kbsalsaud) November 16, 2018

"Saudi officials have
denied that the crown prince had any role in Khashoggi's death."

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11-23-18

Supreme Court to step
up? The Washington Post reports:

"Lawyers challenging the
appointment of Matthew G. Whitaker as acting attorney general asked the
Supreme Court on Friday to step in and declare that someone else should
serve in the role. The filing by lawyer Thomas C. Goldstein, who earlier
this week filed a motion in federal court on behalf of Maryland’s attorney
general challenging Whitaker’s appointment, is a novel attempt to undo
President Trump’s choice to lead the Justice Department after Jeff Sessions
was forced out as attorney general on Nov. 7. Whitaker was serving as Sessions’s
chief of staff, and Goldstein and other critics argue it is illegal for
a government official to run the agency — even temporarily — if he is not
Senate-confirmed. It is unclear when the Supreme Court could consider Goldstein’s
motion."

CBS News reports:

"Three Democratic senators
have filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's appointment of Matthew
Whitaker as acting attorney general. The complaint was filed Monday by
Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Sheldon Whitehouse
of Rhode Island. All three senators sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee
and are arguing that Whitaker's appointment violates the Constitution's
Appointment Clause "advice and consent" role. They believe that Whitaker's
appointment violates the Constitution because he has not been confirmed
by the Senate. On a conference call, Blumenthal said that with Whitaker's
appointment, "the president has made an end run around the Constitution,"
and that this appointment "so flagrantly defies" the Constitution that
any viewer of "Schoolhouse Rock" would recognize it. The complaint
asks a judge to declare the appointment unconstitutional and to prevent
him from serving as head of the Justice Department."

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11-23-18

Trump nazi challenged
in court. NPR reports:

"President Trump's effort
to limit the number of people seeking asylum in the United States will
face legal challenges in two different federal courts on Monday. A federal
judge in California will hear a challenge to the president's recent proclamation
that requires asylum-seekers to present themselves at official ports of
entry. The language of the proclamation makes clear that the administration
is primarily concerned with the migrant caravan moving north through Mexico.
But a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Center
for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
argues that the president's proclamation violates federal law in two ways:
first, it bypasses rules requiring at least 30 days for "notice and comment"
on changes in government regulations; and second, it limits asylum seekers
to ports of entry. Under current federal law, migrants may apply for asylum
inside the U.S. even if they entered the country illegally. In a statement,
the advocacy groups also say that the administration has been discouraging
asylum-seekers who do present themselves at ports of entry:"As documented
in our case Al Otro Lado v. Nielsen, the Department of Homeland Security
has a documented pattern, practice, and policy of turning asylum-seekers
away from official ports of entry at the U.S. border with Mexico, thus
pushing many asylum-seekers to cross the border without authorization in
order to reach relative safety." The migrant advocates are asking U.S.
District Judge Jon Tigar for a temporary restraining order to stop the
administration from implementing the asylum restrictions nationwide."

CBS News reports:

"A federal judge barred
the Trump administration Monday from refusing asylum to immigrants who
cross the southern border illegally. U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar issued
a temporary restraining order after hearing arguments in San Francisco.
He acted on a request made by the American Civil Liberties Union and the
Center for Constitutional Rights, which quickly sued after President Trump
issued the ban this month in response to the caravans of migrants that
have started to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border."

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11-23-18

Height of disingenuous
bullshit by the Trump nazi and his henchmen? Get this. CBS
News reports:

"President Trump said
he will not stop his acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker if he decides
to limit Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. In a weekend interview
with "Fox News Sunday," the president also said he's spent "enough time"
answering Mueller's questions. "I would not get involved," he said. "It's
going to be up to him," Mr. Trump said in the interview. "He's going to
do what's right."

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11-23-18

Hypocrisy run amok. The
Washington Post reports:

"Ivanka Trump sent hundreds
of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants
using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records
rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her
correspondence."

Amazing, isn't it?

"White House ethics officials
learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails
gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records
lawsuit. That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she often discussed
or relayed official White House business using a private email account
with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner. The discovery
alarmed some advisers to President Trump, who feared that his daughter’s
practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton,
an issue he made a focus of his 2016 campaign. He attacked his Democratic
challenger as untrustworthy and dubbed her “Crooked Hillary” for using
a personal email account as secretary of state."

Think he'll say the same
about the First Daughter? LOL.

"Some aides were startled
by the volume of Ivanka Trump’s personal emails — and taken aback by her
response when questioned about the practice. She said she was not familiar
with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her
reaction."

Jesus Christ. No
question, 'stupid is as stupid does.' LOL.

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11-16-18

Once again, Republican
national socialists, fascists are determined to dictate what women can
and cannot do with THEIR uterus. CBS News reports:

"Two states voted Tuesday
to add anti-abortion language to their constitutions in what some opponents
say is preparation for a potential overturn of Roe v. Wade by the U.S.
Supreme Court."

These goddamned nazis
are hell-bent, determined to force their outrageously perverse ideological
and religious views on all. Direct violation of the First Amendment
Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.

"Voters in Alabama and
West Virginia approved state ballot measures that addressed the question
of abortion and sought to ban public Medicaid funding of the procedure.
Both measures stated their state's constitution did not protect a woman's
right to an abortion and their state would not provide funding for the
procedure, except in the case of rape, incest and medical emergency, as
is required by federal law."

National socialism, fascism,
raw nazism. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. military personnel died
fighting this scourge. Second World War European Theater.

"It basically paves the
way to ban abortion in all instances," Shante Wolfe-Sisson, the campaign
manager for Alabama for Healthy Families, a group that opposed the initiative,
said Wednesday in an interview with CBS News. "In practice, it will sit
in the Alabama constitution as a standing law so in the event that Roe
v. Wade is overturned, it will automatically become law."

Raw nazism. Who
the hell are these fascist bastards to force their outrageously perverse
ideological and religious views on all?

"In Alabama, voters agreed
to amend the state constitution to include that its policy was to protect
"the sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, including
the right to life" and its official stance on abortion was to "ensure the
protection of the rights of the unborn child in all manners and measures
lawful and appropriate." Wolfe-Sisson says these changes would effectively
outlaw pregnancy-ending procedures in the event Roe v. Wade gets overturned.
Alabama State Rep. Mike Fridy, who sponsored the amendment, did not immediately
return a call and email seeking comment."

Goddamned nazi.
Again and ferociously pointedly, hundreds of thousands U.S. military personnel
died fighting this outrageous cancer in Europe. Second World War.
Hitler's Third Reich
now resurrected by the Trump nazi, his henchmen,
and nazis in the Republican Party. Trump's Fourth. Traitors.
Direct assault on liberty. All civil and constitutional rights and
liberties.

"In 1973, the Supreme
Court ruling on Roe v. Wade prohibited states from banning abortion prior
to fetus viability, securing a woman's right to access the procedure throughout
the U.S. In recent years, a number of states have enacted measures such
as waiting periods and restrictions on clinics that effectively reduce
access to abortion without explicitly outlawing it."

All in an outrageously
shameless effort to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious
views on all. Nazis. Traitors. Goddamned un-American.

"However, with a Republican
White House and increasingly conservative Supreme Court, some believe that
the days of Roe v. Wade may be numbered. During a 2016 presidential debate,
then-candidate Donald Trump said he foresaw the ruling being overturned
if he were elected because he planned to appoint pro-life judges. He stressed
the issue again in a speech before the 2018 midterm elections."

A nazi Court dominated
by five Republican national socialists, fascists, nazis. If there
is no reproductive freedom, there is no freedom at all. The nazi
element remains too goddamned stupid, hopelessly ignorant to understand
this. 'Can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.' ... Right,
Mr. 'President?'

"So far, the Supreme Court
has not agreed to hear a direct challenge to Roe. But if it eventually
does so, and if a majority of the justices vote to overturn that precedent,
it would be up to individual states to determine whether to restrict or
outlaw abortion within its borders. Measures like the ones seen in Alabama
and West Virginia are essentially preemptive, said Wolfe-Sisson; in the
event that Roe v. Wade is dismantled, abortion will automatically become
illegal in Alabama."

"West Virginians voted
for language that said the state constitution does not "secure or protect"
a woman's right to abortion. The state ballot measure also outlawed the
use of Medicaid dollars to pay for abortion except in the case of rape,
incest and life endangerment, said Patricia Puertas Rucker, a Republican
state senator in West Virginia and lead sponsor of the amendment."

Another Republican nazi.
These clueless national socialists present an exigent threat to life, liberty,
all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Traitors.
Blatant, direct, concerted attack on liberty. Un-American. Right
Wing and nazi.

"I believe that that's
something that people who have conscious objection shouldn't have to pay
for," Rucker told CBS News. Medicaid is jointly funded by states and the
federal government. Federal law doesn't allow states to bar Medicaid funding
for abortions in cases of rape, incest or if the mother's life is in danger."

If by the above reasoning
taxpayers should not be forced to fund abortions, then why the hell should
they be forced to line the pockets of corporate war profiteers? Every
goddamned war since Korea was waged to line the pockets of the corporate
management suite. Blood money.

Even Afghanistan could
have been avoided had the State Department conducted full background checks
on the 9/11 terrorists and heeded warnings of the flight schools the bastards
wished only to learn how to fly straight and level, not take off and land.
Ferociously pointedly, why should those of us who object to this bullshit
be forced to fund it, required to finance these very same war profiteers
who line their pockets off the blood of our troops?
Why? Goddamned
blood money. Nazi America. Yet, it's okay for religious fascists
to use the very same bogus excuse to deny women the right to do with THEIR
uterus as they damn well please? Unadulterated horse shit.
Bogus double standard.

"In a written statement,
Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action
Fund, called the latest state efforts an "unprecedented effort to insert
politics into health care."

Far, far worse than that.
No more than a blatant, deliberate, concerted, naked attempt by the nazi
element in our formerly great country to force their outrageously perverse
ideological and religious views on the rest of us who strongly object to
their goddamned traitorous nazism.

"West Virginia currently
has laws on the books criminalizing abortion, attaching a penalty of three
to 10 years of jail time for either performing or receiving the procedure.
However, the laws are not in effect because both federal and state courts
have found the state code to be unconstitutional."

Yet, not all in our formerly
great country are goose stepping along with the nazi element:

"Meanwhile in Oregon,
voters on Tuesday went the other direction, rejecting a proposal that would
have cut state insurance funding for low-income women seeking abortions."

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11-16-18

Be interesting to see
if Trump uses the replacement of Sessions to engineer the firing of Mueller.
Should that happen, would immediately trigger a constitutional crisis.
NPR reports:

"Acting Attorney General
Matthew Whitaker could make life quite difficult for Justice Department
special counsel Robert Mueller if he wanted."

Should that happen, would
be hell to pay. Likely beginning of the end of the Trump regime.

"It is a true honor that
the President has confidence in my ability to lead the Department of Justice
as Acting Attorney General," Whitaker said in a statement Wednesday evening.
"I am committed to leading a fair Department with the highest ethical standards,
that upholds the rule of law, and seeks justice for all Americans."

None of that's true.
None of it. Readers are reminded Whitaker previously contemplated
defunding the Mueller investigation. Called obstruction of justice.
No more complicated than that.

"Of Sessions, Whitaker
added he "has been a dedicated public servant for over 40 years. It has
been a privilege to work under his leadership. He is a man of integrity
who has served this nation well."

Certainly, highly indicative
of the values and ideology of Whitaker himself. Sessions is, and
was, a racist nazi. Presented an exigent threat to life, liberty,
all civil and constitutional rights and liberties as Attorney General.
Shamelessly lied when he swore his oath of office to uphold the United
States Constitution.

"Now, though, Sessions
is gone and the Justice Department says that means Whitaker's purview includes
the special counsel's investigation. Whitaker has not been a fan."

Gross understatement.

"Mueller has come up to
a red line in the Russia 2016 election-meddling investigation that he is
dangerously close to crossing," Whitaker wrote in an op-ed last year before
he came to work for the government. He called for Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller and who has been supervising his
work, to curb the investigation."

Shameless, blatant obstruction
of justice by a Republican nazi in the pocket of Trump. Loyal partisan.
Forget? Partisanship trumps country. The Republican nazi way.
Conveniently, forget? ... Not that the Democrats are any better,
or more enlightened.

"Now Whitaker is in charge
of the Justice Department and Rosenstein reports to him, putting Whitaker
in a position to constrain the special counsel if he wishes or if he's
directed to do so by the president."

Should that happen, would
immediately trigger a constitutional crisis. Would not be tolerated.

"Trump has made clear
that he believes he has the power to fire Mueller altogether, through the
leadership of the Justice Department or outside it. The president's lawyers
have argued he has vast privilege under the Constitution to hire or dismiss
nearly anyone within the executive branch. Trump asserted that again on
Wednesday in a press conference at the White House in which he suggested
the only reason he hasn't already ousted Mueller is because it might make
him look bad."

What it would do is immediately
trigger a constitutional crisis. No question. Be viewed
as no more than obstruction of justice. -- A nazi fuhrer more
than willing to place himself above the best interests of our formerly
great country.

"Whitaker so far hasn't
said much about his outlook for the Justice Department or the special counsel
investigation; Rosenstein hasn't spoken publicly either since Sessions'
dismissal."

Both need to immediately
do so. Assure the nation they will not engage in or tolerate obstruction
of justice.

"Critics, however, are
calling on Whitaker not to take the reins. Democrats cited his past comments
about Mueller as evidence that he too must recuse."

No question. Even
as despicable as the racist Sessions nazi truly was, has to be given great
credit for doing the right thing and recusing himself. -- One of
the few things he did right as Attorney General.

"Given his record of threats
to undermine & weaken the Russia investigation, Matthew Whitaker should
recuse himself from any involvement in Mueller's investigation," House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Twitter. "Congress must
take immediate action to protect the rule of law and integrity of the investigation"

How can that happen when
congressional Republican nazis continue to protect and defend their fuhrer
in the Oval Office?

"Whitaker's views as an
outside commentator before joining the government have been music to the
ears of Trump and Republicans. He's been an advocate for sharply restricting
the avenues down which Mueller's investigators can travel, as when he responded
to reports that Mueller might be looking into Trump's financial relationships
with Russians."

Called blatant obstruction
of justice. To protect his fuhrer.

"Experts say, however,
that any investigation into the role foreign countries play in domestic
politics must delve down financial rabbit holes."

Indeed. No question.
Have to follow all leads to their conclusion. Thorough investigation.

"And separately, two years
ago, after then-FBI Director James Comey announced he would not recommend
charges against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for her use of a private
email server, Whitaker penned an opinion piece for USA Today headlined
"I would indict Hillary Clinton." "Director Comey's judgment was that "no
reasonable prosecutor" would bring the case. I disagree," Whitaker wrote.
"I believe myself to have been a reasonable prosecutor, and when the facts
and evidence show a criminal violation has been committed, the individuals
involved should not dictate whether the case is prosecuted."

Shouldn't the same be
applied to the Trump nazi? Whitaker is either lying or deluded.
Clearly, he's a Republican partisan in the camp of Trump Inc. Precisely,
why the fuhrer appointed him interim Attorney General. No
more complicated than that. Grossly unfit for office. Exactly,
why Trump dumped Sessions and appointed him.

The Washington Post
reports:

"Within hours of his appointment,
there were mounting calls by congressional Democrats and government watchdog
groups for Whitaker to recuse himself, citing critical comments he made
about Mueller’s investigation."

For damned good reason.
This man is unfit. No more than a staunch Republican partisan in
the pocket of Trump.

"Furious Democrats, emboldened
by winning control of the House in Tuesday’s elections, also promised to
investigate Sessions’s forced resignation and suggested Trump’s actions
could amount to obstruction of justice if he intended to disrupt the criminal
probe. “There is no mistaking what this means, and what is at stake: this
is a constitutionally perilous moment for our country and for the President,”
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.) said in a statement. He is set to take over
in January as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the panel that
would oversee any impeachment proceedings."

To date, all talk no action.
Hopefully, that will change in January. If not, no better than Republican
national socialists who egregiously failed to provide congressional oversight.
To protect their nazi fuhrer.

"Sen. Richard Blumenthal
of Connecticut called Wednesday’s events “a break-the-glass moment” and
said he would be introducing legislation to protect Mueller’s work."

Where have we heard this
before? Where? To date, no action. Empty talk.

“Any attempt to limit
his resources or the scope of his investigation is unacceptable,” he said.
“The world, and history, are watching.”

"When federal investigators
were digging into an invention-promotion company accused of fraud by customers,
they sought information in 2017 from a prominent member of the company’s
advisory board, according to two people familiar with the probe: Matthew
G. Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney in Iowa. It is unclear how Whitaker
— who was appointed acting attorney general by President Trump on Wednesday
— responded to a Federal Trade Commission subpoena to his law firm. In
the end, the FTC filed a complaint against Miami-based World Patent Marketing,
accusing it of misleading investors and falsely promising that it would
help them patent and profit from their inventions, according to court filings.
In May of this year, a federal court in Florida ordered the company to
pay a settlement of more than $25 million and close up shop, records show.
The company did not admit or deny wrongdoing. Whitaker’s sudden elevation
this week to replace fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions has put new scrutiny
on his involvement with the shuttered company, whose advisory board he
joined in 2014, shortly after making a failed run for U.S. Senate in Iowa."

Fascinating, isn't it?
Plot thickens:

"At the time, he was also
running a conservative watchdog group with ties to other powerful nonprofits
on the right and was beginning to develop a career as a Trump-friendly
cable television commentator. World Patent Marketing — founded by Miami
businessman Scott J. Cooper, who had donated $2,600 to Whitaker’s Senate
campaign — prominently highlighted Whitaker’s résumé as a
former U.S. attorney, which helped lend the company credibility. But Whitaker
seems to have been more than a figurehead. He spoke about inventions of
the company’s clients in online videos — including a special hot-tub seat
for people with mobility issues. He also penned a response to at least
one complaint — writing a threatening email in which he cited his role
as a former U.S. attorney, according to court filings."

Now, he's Trump's interim
Attorney General.

“It’s really upsetting
to know that guy will be attorney general,” said Ryan Masti, 26, who lost
$77,000 after paying World Patent Marketing to help him bring to market
his idea for a social media app to help the disabled. “It’s so offensive.
It’s like a stab in the back.” Whitaker did not respond to requests for
comment about World Patent Marketing or the investigation. “We’ll decline,”
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in an email to The
Washington Post."

If there's nothing to
hide and all is on the up and up, why isn't the Justice Department willing
to comment?

"A partner at Whitaker’s
former Iowa law firm declined to comment. A spokesman for the FTC also
declined to comment."

Fascinating, isn't it?
Silence golden?

"There was no evidence
that Whitaker knew company salespeople were making false promises to inventors,
court receiver Jonathan Perlman said in an interview."

That right? If so,
why no comment and/or further information from DOJ?

“I have no reason to believe
that he knew of any of the wrongdoing,” Perlman said. Whitaker was paid
at least $10,000 by the company, according to court filings."

Certainly, lined his pockets.

Get this:

"At the conclusion of
the FTC investigation, Perlman sent a demand letter to Whitaker — along
with other advisory board members — seeking repayment of the fees they
received. Whitaker did not respond, Perlman said."

Why not?

"When Whitaker was appointed
to the board of World Patent Marketing in October 2014, a company spokesman
said in a press release that he would provide “vision and direction.” Later,
the company touted Whitaker’s legal background and said he was working
with the company to help investors avoid patent marketing fraud. “As a
former U.S. Attorney, I would only align myself with a first class organization,”
Whitaker said in a 2014 company news release. “World Patent Marketing goes
beyond making statements about doing business ‘ethically’ and translate
those words into action.” According to the FTC, however, the company falsely
promised clients it would patent and market their ideas in exchange for
hefty fees — and then pocketed the money. “For the last three years, Defendants
have operated an invention-promotion scam that has bilked thousands of
consumers out of millions of dollars,” the agency alleged in a recently
unsealed court filing. “In truth and in fact, Defendants fail to fulfill
almost every promise they make to consumers.”

No one prosecuted?
If the allegations were indeed true, why not? Someone paid off?

"Neither Cooper nor his
current attorney responded to requests for comment."

Imagine that.

"In court documents, Cooper
told the court that the company did provide some services and said the
company’s website warned customers that most inventions are not commercially
successful, according to the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Sun-Sentinel. World
Patent Marketing salespeople would persuade prospective clients to sign
a confidentiality agreement and then ask them to explain their idea, according
to court documents. Whatever the concept, no matter how banal or improbable,
investigators found, the salesperson would pronounce the idea fantastic
and encourage the customer to pay for a package to market and patent the
idea, documents show. Many people ended up in debt or lost their life savings,
according to the FTC."

Anyone prosecuted?
Anyone at all? If not, why not?

A scam. Get this:

"Promotional material
highlighted the meaty résumés of board members like Whitaker,
which seemed to be a key component of the business operation. The company
said the board would help review inventors’ ideas to maximize their ability
to get rich. “Innovators are today’s revolutionaries — forward-thinking
visionaries that have come together to form the powerful and influential
World Patent Marketing advisory board,” the narrator of one promotional
video intoned, as photos of Whitaker and other board members filled the
screen. Masti, who said he struggled with ADHD as a child and hoped his
invention would help others like him, said in an interview that he trusted
the company in part because he was told that advisory board members, including
Whitaker, had reviewed his idea and thought it would be successful. “They
said he’s very high up. He’s a professional. He’s got a lot of power,”
said Masti, a resident of Cameron, N.Y., who said he voted for Trump in
2016. “That’s how they sold you.”

Sounds like a scam, doesn't
it? Gets worse. Get this:

"Now, Masti said he is
living with his parents and facing crushing debt from loans he took out
to pay the company. Another former customer, Penn Mason, an airline employee
from Nashville, said he paid World Patent Marketing $21,000 to help him
patent and market a real estate app he had invented. The company failed
to patent his product and quickly stopped returning his phone calls, he
said. Mason said he believes that paid advisory board members like Whitaker
essentially pocketed money from unsuspecting victims. “That was our money,”
said Mason, 52. Of Whitaker’s selection as acting attorney general, he
said, “It makes me sick to my stomach ... It’s like a punch in the gut.”
When investors began to complain that they had paid the company large sums
with little to show for it, they were threatened, according to interviews
and court documents."

Goes on and on.

"Mason said that after
he began to complain, he got a call from Cooper, the CEO, who threatened
to sue him for slander. “He really scared me,” Mason said. “You feel like
you’re dealing with all these bigwigs.” The Miami New Times, which published
in an in-depth investigation of the company last year, reported that Cooper
would sometimes tell people who had posted negative reviews of the company
that he had security with specialized training in the Israeli martial art
Krav Maga. In an August 2015 email included in court documents, Whitaker
wrote to a complainant who threatened to go to the Better Business Bureau,
“I am assuming you understand that there could be serious civil and criminal
consequences for you.” He noted he was a former U.S. attorney."

"The nation's new acting
attorney general served as a paid adviser to a Florida company shut down
by a federal judge earlier this year and fined almost $26 million for allegedly
running an invention-promotion scam. Matthew G. Whitaker, the acting attorney
general and a former U.S. attorney in Iowa, joined the advisory board of
World Patent Marketing in the fall of 2014. His involvement with the now-defunct
company is attracting attention after President Trump picked him to fill
in for Jeff Sessions, forced out as attorney general earlier this week.
Indeed, the FBI's Miami office has been conducting a criminal investigation
of World Patent Marketing during the period it paid Whitaker as an adviser
while it allegedly scammed millions of dollars from customers, the Wall
Street Journal reported Friday. Whitaker oversees the FBI in his newly
elevated role as acting attorney general. Closed down by a federal judge
in May, World Patent Marketing "bilked thousands of consumers out of millions
of dollars" by promising inventors lucrative patent agreements, according
to a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission in March 2017. The
company did not admit or deny wrongdoing in the settlement."

Quite a lucrative scam:

"Consumers were told by
World Patent Marketing that they had to spend about $3,000 for a "Global
Invention Royalty Analysis" to start the process of obtaining a patent.
After the initial payment, customers were then offered varying packages
that ran from $8,000 to about $65,000, the FTC complaint said. Once consumers
paid the company money, they were typically ignored, then threatened or
scolded when they requested information or asked for their money back,
according to the agency. "Defendants and their lawyers have threatened
consumers with lawsuits and even criminal charges and imprisonment for
making any kind of complaint," the FTC 's complaint said. In at least one
court documented case, the company used Whitaker's prior role as a federal
prosecutor to rebuke customers. "World Patent Marketing has become a trusted
partner to many inventors that believe in the American Dream," Whitaker
stated in a news release touting his new role. "I have always admired World
Patent Marketing and its innovative products and dynamic leadership team.
It's an honor to join the World Patent Marketing board." "As a former U.S.
attorney, I would only align myself with a first class organization," Whitaker
stated in another news release issued two months later by the company."

"President Trump defended
his selection of acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Friday as
new questions arose about Whitaker's fitness for the post and whether his
appointment is legal. Trump named Whitaker to the acting position on Wednesday
after abruptly forcing out Attorney General Jeff Sessions. In doing so,
the president passed over Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, installing
a political appointee with a record of criticizing special counsel Robert
Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump,
who has frequently dismissed that probe as a "witch hunt," feigned ignorance
of Whitaker's background. "I don't know Matt Whitaker," Trump told reporters
on Friday as he left the White House for a trip to Paris. "Matt Whitaker
worked for Jeff Sessions. And he was always extremely highly thought of
and he still is. But I didn't know Matt Whitaker." In fact, Trump has met
with his hand-picked appointee more than a dozen times. As Sessions' chief
of staff, Whitaker reportedly accompanied his boss to the Oval Office on
multiple occasions."

The president is clearly
a liar.

The Washington Post
reports:

"President Trump distanced
himself Friday from acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker amid intensifying
scrutiny of the controversial legal views and business entanglements of
the president’s pick to run the Justice Department and assume control of
the Russia investigation. With the White House scrambling to manage public
examination of Whitaker’s background and resistance to his leadership within
the Justice Department, Trump sought to douse speculation that he had installed
the partisan loyalist to curtail the probe of Russian interference in the
2016 presidential campaign."

Bet he did. Think
effectively? Delusionally, believe so?

"Trump insisted that he
had not spoken with Whitaker about the investigation being led by special
counsel Robert S. Mueller III — and the president upbraided a reporter
when she asked whether he wanted Whitaker to rein in Mueller. “What a stupid
question,” he said. Defiant and testy as he departed the White House on
Friday morning for a weekend visit to Paris, Trump claimed four separate
times that he did not personally know Whitaker, who had been serving as
chief of staff at the Justice Department. “I don’t know Matt Whitaker,”
Trump told reporters, adding that he knew him only by reputation. That
claim is false, according to the president’s past statements as well as
the accounts of White House officials — one of whom laughed Friday at Trump’s
suggestion that he did not know Whitaker. Trump and Whitaker have met in
the Oval Office several times, and Whitaker briefed Trump when the president
preferred not to talk to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whom he had
disparaged publicly, according to White House officials. As Trump said
last month on Fox News Channel, “I know Matt Whitaker.” In addition, Trump
was aware that Whitaker was a skeptic of the Mueller probe before appointing
him, which factored into his decision to tap him over Deputy Attorney General
Rod J. Rosenstein, according to two White House advisers who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to be candid."

Obstruction of justice.

"Meanwhile, Whitaker’s
public record is drawing fresh scrutiny. That includes comments during
his unsuccessful 2014 campaign in Iowa for U.S. Senate that judges should
have a “biblical view,” that he could not support judicial nominees who
are “secular” and that he thinks federal courts are supposed to be the
“inferior branch” of the government. Whitaker has criticized the Supreme
Court’s landmark 1803 ruling in Marbury v. Madison, which serves as the
foundation for judicial review of public policy. Federal investigators
last year also looked into whether Whitaker, as an advisory-board member
of a Miami patent company accused of fraud by customers, played a role
in trying to help the company silence critics by threatening legal action.
But it is Whitaker’s outspoken criticism of the Mueller investigation that
has led Democrats to allege bias and spurred bipartisan efforts on Capitol
Hill to pass legislation designed to protect the special counsel and prohibit
Trump from firing him.

"Meanwhile, an audio recording
has circulated online in which Whitaker expresses doubt about any Russian
inference in elections at all. “The left is trying to sow this theory that
essentially Russians interfered with the U.S. election, which has been
proven false,” Whitaker said. “They did not have any impact in the election.”
That statement directly conflicts with the conclusion of U.S. intelligence
agencies that Russia interfered in the election to help elect Trump and
the Justice Department’s indictments of more than two dozen alleged Russian
agents for interference. Inside the Justice Department, there is considerable
resistance to Whitaker, and some officials there say they think he is wholly
unqualified to be acting attorney general. Many in the building are concerned
about infighting, noting that while Whitaker was serving as chief of staff
to Sessions he spoke privately with Trump about taking over as attorney
general and did not disclose the conversation to Sessions. A person familiar
with the matter said Sessions was surprised when The Washington Post first
reported on Whitaker and Trump’s discussion. Whitaker also had been seen
as gunning for Rosenstein’s job, which created awkwardness among the department
leadership, officials said."

Apparently, not all of
the Trump nazi's aides are on board:

"At the White House as
well as the Justice Department, senior aides were taken aback by news accounts
of Whitaker’s work on the advisory board of Miami-based World Patent Marketing,
which was accused of defrauding its customers. Officials said they were
particularly stunned by emails showing Whitaker invoked his former job
as a U.S. attorney to threaten a man who had complained about the company.
Whitaker also rebuffed an October 2017 subpoena from the Federal Trade
Commission seeking his records related to the company, according to two
people with knowledge of the case. Also under scrutiny is Whitaker’s work
as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. In one of its most
publicized cases, Whitaker’s office brought charges against an openly gay
Democratic state senator, Matt McCoy, for allegedly using his office to
extort about $2,000 from a local company that installed motion sensors
in the homes of senior citizens to monitor their health. McCoy said he
believed the case was motivated because of his politics and sexual orientation,
and a jury found him not guilty. A Justice Department spokesman said the
case was brought on its merits, not because of politics. Still, for Whitaker,
the case ended in defeat and harsh criticism in the local press."

Trump and his henchmen
present an exigent threat to our democratic republic. To say nothing
of life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

Even Rosenstein has not
turned out to be the protector of the Constitution he earlier appeared
to be:

"Seeking to quell the
internal concerns and public doubts that have been raised about Whitaker,
Rosenstein praised his new boss in brief remarks to reporters Friday in
Alexandria, Va. “I think he’s a superb choice for attorney general,” Rosenstein
said. “He certainly understands the work, understands the priorities of
the department. I think he’s going to do a superb job as attorney general.”
He added that he delivered the same message Thursday in a conference call
with prosecutors across the country."

Rosenstein has lost all
credibility. Is not fit for the job.

"Justice Department lawyers
are bracing for the likelihood that they will face lawsuits over the constitutionality
of Whitaker’s appointment. A Justice Department official said lawyers feared
that challengers would be able to find a judge, at least at the district-court
level, who would be friendly to challenges over Whitaker’s authority —
whether they had merit or not — and stir further anxiety at the department.
Lawyers Neal K. Katyal and George T. Conway III, who have emerged as prominent
critics of the Trump administration, argued in a New York Times column
this week that Whitaker’s appointment was unconstitutional because the
appointments clause of the Constitution requires “principal officers” who
report to the president be confirmed by the Senate. Some other legal scholars
dispute that argument.

"Speaking with reporters
Friday, Trump distanced himself from Whitaker, just as he has done with
other close associates — including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort
and former personal lawyer Michael Cohen — once they become embroiled in
controversy. “Well, Matt Whitaker — I don’t know Matt Whitaker,” Trump
said. “Matt Whitaker worked for Jeff Sessions, and he was always extremely
highly thought of, and he still is. But I didn’t know Matt Whitaker.” Trump
went on to praise Whitaker as “a very smart man,” “very respected” and
“at the top of the line” — and claimed his selection to succeed Sessions
“was greeted with raves.” Administration officials and outside advisers
said later Friday that they were struggling to divine the meaning of Trump’s
assertion he did not know Whitaker. “Could he be running from him? I guess
it’s possible,” said one person close to Trump and the Justice Department.
“I think he’s just trying to kick the can and not deal with the situation.”

Think the shit's finally
about to hit the fan?

Trump has again demonstrated
he's a rabid jackass. ABC News reports:

"President Donald Trump
on Friday mocked "Mr. Kellyanne Conway", George Conway, the husband of
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and his concerns that Matthew Whitaker's
appointment as acting attorney general is unconstitutional. "You mean Mr.
Kellyanne Conway?" Trump responded when asked by a reporter about the criticism.
"He’s just trying to get publicity for himself. Why don't you do this,
why don't you ask Kellyanne that question, all right? She might know him
better than me. I really don't know the guy."

Then, why talk out both
sides your ass, Mr. 'President?'

"George Conway co-wrote
an op-ed in the New York Times published Thursday arguing that President
Trump's appointment of Whitaker as acting attorney general is unconstitutional
because he wasn't confirmed by the Senate. "It’s illegal. And it means
that anything Mr. Whitaker does, or tries to do, in that position is invalid,"
Conway, a lawyer, and Neal Katyal, also a Washington lawyer and former
acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama, wrote in the New
York Times. "Because Mr. Whitaker has not undergone the process of Senate
confirmation, there has been no mechanism for scrutinizing whether he has
the character and ability to evenhandedly enforce the law in a position
of such grave responsibility. The public is entitled to that assurance,
especially since Mr. Whitaker’s only supervisor is Mr. Trump himself, and
the president is hopelessly compromised by the Mueller investigation,"
Conway and Katyal wrote. It's not the first time Conway has publicly shared
views opposing those of his wife's boss. Conway and Katyal recently wrote
an op-ed in the Washington Post arguing that Trump's proposal to end birthright
citizenship is unconstitutional."

Shit continues to hit
the fan. The Washington Post reports:

"Maryland’s top lawyer
is asking a federal judge to block Matthew G. Whitaker from serving as
acting U.S. attorney general contending the appointment is illegal. Maryland
Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) says in a planned court filing Tuesday
that President Trump’s appointment of Whitaker is unconstitutional and
that he should be replaced by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein,
who was confirmed by the Senate. “The Constitution and Congress have established
vitally important processes for filling high-level vacancies in the federal
government,” Frosh said in a statement. “Few positions are more critical
than that of U.S. Attorney General, an office that wields enormous enforcement
power and authority over the lives of all Americans.” The challenge to
Whitaker’s appointment would come as part of Maryland’s ongoing federal
lawsuit that is trying to force the Trump administration to uphold a key
provision of the Affordable Care Act. “Who the attorney general is is at
the core of this lawsuit,” Frosh said in an interview Tuesday morning.
“Aside from the constitutional issue, this guy, Mr. Whitaker, has extreme
views and that’s dangerous in itself,” said Frosh, adding he also expects
any ruling in the state challenge to Whitaker’s role would be appealed.
The planned legal action over Whitaker, first reported by NPR, says his
appointment violates the Constitution’s Appointments Clause that requires
“principal” senior officials, like the attorney general, to be confirmed
by the Senate. Maryland also contends it violates a federal statute that
gives authority to the deputy attorney general when the top job is vacant."

Be interesting to see
where this goes, -- if anywhere.

CBS News reports:

"The Justice Department's
Office of Legal Counsel on Wednesday released the legal advice it gave
the White House as to whether a senior Justice Department official like
Matt Whitaker could be appointed acting attorney general, CBS News' Paula
Reid reports. In short, the Justice Department's lawyers, in the memo dated
Wednesday, argued an appointment Whitaker's is lawful. A senior Justice
Department official who worked on the memo and spoke to reporters on a
conference call Wednesday morning confirmed the Justice Department gave
the White House verbal advice, then codified that advice in a memo."

Be interesting to see
if that flies, no? Sounds like they were 'winging' it, doesn't it?
... To appease the Trump nazi.

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11-16-18

In follow up to a recent
edition here and elsewhere, NPR reports:

"Asia Bibi, a Pakistani
Christian woman acquitted days ago of blasphemy, has been freed from jail
after spending more than eight years in solitary confinement awaiting execution.
The acquittal of Bibi, who is Catholic, was announced just over a week
ago by Pakistan's Supreme Court, which said her accusers had not definitively
proved her guilt. She was permitted to leave jail immediately after the
verdict, but her release was delayed after protests from an extremist religious
group, demanding she be killed. Citing officials, the BBC reports that
Bibi left her detention facility in Punjab province under heavy security
on Wednesday and was flown to a secure location in Islamabad.

"The Italian government
said earlier this week it would help Bibi and her family relocate. Several
other Western countries have also offered her asylum. In the past, both
Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis have advocated for her."

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11-16-18

More of the same.
A congenital liar. NPR reports:

"Days after midterm voting,
as ballots are still being counted, Republican lawmakers holding onto tight
leads in midterm states are alleging foul play and voter fraud. The claims
were amplified by President Trump, without evidence, on Friday morning.
"You mean they are just now finding votes in Florida and Georgia — but
the Election was on Tuesday?" he wrote in a tweet. "Let's blame the Russians
and demand an immediate apology from President Putin!"

"You
mean they are just now finding votes in Florida and Georgia – but the Election
was on Tuesday? Let’s blame the Russians and demand an immediate apology
from President Putin! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2018"

A congenital liar.
No proof. No evidence. Abject bullshit. Forget?
The Trump way.

"Current Florida Gov.
Rick Scott, locked in a tight Senate race, said in a press conference Thursday
night that "the people of Florida deserve fairness and transparency and
the supervisors are failing to give it to us."

Lying because you're losing
the race?

"Every Floridian should
be concerned there may be rampant voter fraud in Palm Beach and Broward
Counties," he said. "I will not sit idly by while unethical liberals try
to steal this election from the great people of Florida."

Another congenital liar
in the mold of the Trump nazi.

In update, NPR reports:

"Two top elections in
Florida are heading for recounts, with voters almost evenly divided on
candidates in the state's races for governor and the U.S. Senate. Unofficial
vote tallies from all of Florida's 67 counties were turned in at noon on
Saturday, and the narrow vote margins triggered machine recounts, which
must be completed by Thursday. The most acrimonious of the elections may
be the U.S. Senate race between Republican Gov. Rick Scott and incumbent
Democrat Bill Nelson, which will have national consequences. If Scott is
able to retain his lead, it would expand the Republican majority in the
Senate, which currently stands at 51 seats. Scott's lead had narrowed to
.15 percentage points, or about 12,500 votes, by Saturday afternoon. Florida
law requires a machine recount when the leading candidate's margin is 0.5
percentage points or less. Nelson has filed a federal lawsuit asking to
postpone the deadline for submitting election results and a motion over
the process of validating signatures on provisional and absentee ballots.
Scott also filed lawsuits in both Broward and Palm Beach counties demanding
election supervisors there reveal how many votes are left to count, and
judges ruled Friday that those election supervisors had to release that
information. President Trump weighed in with support for Scott, calling
the potential for a recount a "fraud," and referring to one of Nelson's
attorneys, Marc Elias, in a tweet on Saturday.

"As
soon as Democrats sent their best Election stealing lawyer, Marc Elias,
to Broward County they miraculously started finding Democrat votes. Don’t
worry, Florida - I am sending much better lawyers to expose the FRAUD! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2018"

The Washington Post
reports:

"President Trump on Monday
called for stopping the recounts in Florida’s votes for Senate and governor,
alleging without evidence that many ballots are missing and forged and
that a valid tally is not possible. In a morning tweet, Trump suggested
that the results from the night of the Nov. 6 election should stand, handing
victories to fellow Republicans Rick Scott, the governor, in the Senate
race and Ron DeSantis, a former congressman, in the gubernatorial contest.

“The Florida Election
should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large
numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing
or forged,” the president said in a tweet that misstated what Florida officials
have concluded. “An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively
infected. Must go with Election Night!”

Midterm election results
are not final in Florida and elsewhere, enraging the Trump nazi, his henchmen,
and GOP national socialists. The Washington Post reports:

"As heavily Democratic
counties in South Florida scrambled to meet a Saturday deadline to report
election returns, Republican Rick Scott’s lead over Democrat Bill Nelson
in the U.S. Senate race shrunk to just 12,562 votes out of nearly 8.2 million
votes cast, ensuring a recount. Vote totals posted Saturday showed the
margin in the marquee race in the nation’s biggest battleground state at
.015 percent, close enough to trigger a recount by machine. Also hitting
that threshold was the race for governor between Democrat Andrew Gillum
and Republican Ron DeSantis, who is sitting on slightly bigger cushion
of 33,684 votes over Gillum.

"Scott, who has also raised
allegations of fraud, used his bully pulpit Saturday to encourage Florida
sheriffs to keep an eye out for any violations of election laws. But the
claims by the president and the governor were undercut Saturday by the
Florida Department of State, which said in a statement it found “no evidence
of criminal activity at this time. ” The department, which oversees elections,
had sent two monitors to observe Tuesday’s vote in Broward County as result
of a lawsuit over the mishandling of ballots in a 2016 congressional race."

Scott and the Trump nazi
allege voter fraud with no evidence to back it up. Law enforcement
has also claimed to have found no credible allegations.

"A spokeswoman for the
state department, Sarah Revell, said the observers were sent to “monitor
the administration of the election, including visiting polling locations
throughout the day as needed and observing preparation of the voting equipment
and procedures for the election.” The monitors have continued to monitor
the vote-counting this week.

"Nelson has accused Scott
of using the power of his office to try to secure his Senate victory. Earlier
this week, the governor called for state law enforcement to investigate
the voting in South Florida — a probe that the state agency has so far
declined to begin because the state department has not presented any allegations
of fraud.

"Under Florida law, a
statewide machine recount is conducted when the margin of victory is less
than 0.5 percent, and a manual recount is ordered if the margin is less
than 0.25 percent. The governor’s race does not appear to meet the manual
recount standard, according to Saturday’s tally.

A manual recount is defined
as “a hand recount of overvotes and undervotes set aside from the machine
recount,” centering on ballots in which voters skipped a race or voted
for two candidates in one race."

The Washington Post
reports:

"Lawsuits and accusations
flew Monday in the recount battle in Florida, with Sen. Bill Nelson (D)
calling on Republican Gov. Rick Scott, his opponent, to recuse himself
from overseeing the process and a judge ruling there was no evidence of
voter fraud even as President Trump alleged without evidence that ballots
were missing and forged. Recounts in Florida’s races for governor, Senate
and agriculture commissioner were ordered Saturday due to tight margins
in the votes and immediately became the focus of lawsuits by candidates.
On Monday, state Judge Jack Tuter ruled against a request by Scott that
ballots and machines in closely watched Broward County not in use in the
recount be impounded. Tuter said that there was no evidence of voter fraud
and that Brenda Snipes, the county election supervisor, needs to be allowed
to do her job and finish the count. Tuter also appeared to admonish the
Scott team for suggesting voter fraud without offering evidence of it.
“Everything the lawyers are saying out there at the elections office is
being beamed out across the country. We should be careful what we say,”
Tuter said. “These words mean things these days, as everybody in the room
knows.”

Not only is Scott a liar,
so is the Trump nazi:

"Earlier Monday, Trump
tweeted that the results from the night of the Nov. 6 election should stand,
handing victories to Scott and to Republican former congressman Ron DeSantis
in the gubernatorial contest. “The Florida Election should be called in
favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots
showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged,” the
president said in a tweet that misstated what Florida officials have concluded.
“An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected.
Must go with Election Night!”

"The
Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis
in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many
ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots
massively infected. Must go with Election Night! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2018"

No proof. No evidence.
Blatant lies.

"Also Monday, a new suit
was filed on behalf of VoteVets, the Democratic National Committee and
the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee asked that all mail-in ballots
postmarked by last Tuesday be counted. Under current rules, ballots must
be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day. Nelson also called on Scott to recuse
himself from the recount, charging Monday that the governor can’t oversee
the recount “in a fair and impartial way.” “He’s thrown around words like
voter fraud without any proof,” Nelson said."

A congenital liar.
Just like the Trump nazi:

"In a Fox News television
appearance earlier, Scott called Nelson a “sore loser” and alleged that
“he’s just here to steal this election.” In the Senate contest, Scott’s
lead over Nelson has narrowed to 12,562 votes out of more than 8 million
ballots cast, a margin of 0.15 percent, according to an unofficial tally
Saturday from the state. State law mandates a machine recount if the margin
is half a percentage point or less. The governor’s race also has tightened,
with DeSantis, a staunch ally of Trump, ahead of Tallahassee Mayor Andrew
Gillum (D) by 0.41 percent. If that margin holds, it would fall short of
the 0.25 percent threshold for a more involved manual recount. If the margin
in the Senate race holds, however, it would be slim enough to require a
hand recount. In that scenario, officials would have three days to inspect
ballots with over votes or under votes — ballots on which the voter selected
no candidate or more than one candidate in the race — provided there are
enough to change the outcome. That could spark disputes about whether the
voter intended to mark it that way."

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11-16-18

Although the results are
not yet final, the LGBTQ community did extremely well in the election.
NPR reports:

"As the electoral landscape
took shape earlier this year, at least one thing became clear: 2018 was
set to become a year of firsts. Election Day promised to usher in a group
of barrier-breaking candidates, blazing trails for diverse communities
that have long gone unrepresented in Congress and other halls of power
— and nowhere was that promise more evident than in its record-smashing
class of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer nominees. More than
400 such candidates were on the ballot Tuesday, according to the Victory
Fund, an advocacy group that supports viable LGBTQ politicians. The sizable
crop of candidates had some people even speaking of a "rainbow wave." So,
now that Election Day has drawn to a close, how has that record class actually
fared at the ballot box? The final answer to that question will need to
wait until all of the races are called, of course, but already some candidates
have made history."

NBC News reports:

"As the sun set on Washington
on Tuesday evening, a rainbow appeared over the Capitol. LGBTQ candidates
and advocates hoped it was an early sign that a figurative “rainbow wave”
would sweep a historic number of lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer
candidates into office. Their hopes were arguably fulfilled. With many
races still too close to call, more than 100 LGBTQ candidates emerged victorious
in the midterms as of Wednesday afternoon. For perspective, there are currently
less than 600 openly LGBTQ elected officials in the U.S. — just 0.1 percent
of elected officials nationwide, according to the Victory Institute. “This
election is shaping up to be truly historic for LGBTQ candidates," Sarah
Kate Ellis, president and CEO of the national LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD,
said in a statement shared with NBC News."

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11-16-18

The Trump nazi certainly
does not believe in a free press. The Washington Post reports:

"The White House suspended
the press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta on Wednesday, hours after
President Trump took issue with questions Acosta asked at a news conference."

"The move to punish Acosta
by removing his access to the White House is believed to be unprecedented.
The Trump administration barred another CNN reporter from attending an
open media event in July but until now has not gone as far as removing
a credential, known as a “hard pass,” which enables a journalist to enter
the White House grounds. Press secretary Sarah Sanders cited Acosta’s brief
confrontation with a White House press aide during Trump’s midday news
conference as the reason for suspending his press pass “until further notice.”

The nazi has spoken.

"During the 90-minute
session at the White House, Trump snapped at Acosta after the reporter
asked whether the president had “demonized immigrants” by calling a caravan
of Central American migrants “an invasion.” After a long and tense back-and-forth,
a female White House intern tried to take the microphone from Acosta."

"Acosta held onto it and
raised an arm to shield it, in the process making contact with the aide.
“Pardon me, ma’am,” he said to her. After their exchange, Trump told Acosta:
“CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. You are a
rude, terrible person. You shouldn’t be working for CNN. You’re a very
rude person. The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible. And the way
you treat other people are horrible. You shouldn’t treat people that way.”

"On Wednesday night, Sanders
accused Acosta of “placing his hands on a young woman” and said it was
on those grounds that Acosta’s press pass was being suspended."

Horse shit. Unadulterated.

“President Trump believes
in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his
Administration,” Sanders said in a statement. “We will, however, never
tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do
her job as a White House intern. This conduct is absolutely unacceptable.
It is also completely disrespectful to the reporter’s colleagues not to
allow them an opportunity to ask a question.”

Again, no more than unadulterated
horse shit:

"Video of the exchange
showed otherwise. On Twitter, Acosta responded to the press secretary’s
statement with, simply: “This is a lie.”

"The White House Correspondents'
Association called the White House’s reaction “out of line to the purported
offense” and urged that Acosta’s press pass be restored."

Trump remains no more
than a gutless coward. No ability to withstand and/or answer pointed
questioning.

"Appearing on CNN on Wednesday
evening, Acosta told host Anderson Cooper that he was “just trying to ask
a question of the president.” He added: “I didn’t put my hands on her or
touch her, as the White House is alleging. I do think, Anderson, that this
is a test for all of us. I think they’re trying to shut us down. I think
they’re trying to send a message to my colleagues.”

No question. Trump
again proved he remains unfit for office. Lacks temperament, judgment.

"Acosta said he learned
that his access was denied from a text message he received on his phone.
When he went to the White House for “one last live shot,” he said a security
officer prevented him from passing through an entrance he has used for
the past five years. “I never thought that in this country I wouldn’t be
able to cover the president of the United States just for asking a question,”
he said. In a statement Wednesday night, CNN accused the White House of
retaliating against Acosta because of his questions. “In an explanation,
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders lied,” the network stated. “She provided
fraudulent accusations and cited an incident that never happened. This
unprecedented decision is a threat to our democracy and the country deserves
better. Jim Acosta has our full support.” The network also tweeted a video
of the interaction “for the world to see.”

Sanders, like her fuhrer,
has again disgraced herself.

"Sanders later tweeted
a short clip of the interaction, writing: “We stand by our decision.”

No honor. No principles.
No guts. Just like her fuhrer.

"Matt Dornic, CNN’s vice
president of communications, responded by sharing a fuller video clip,
writing: “You manipulated this video. The lies never end.”

"Don’t
believe the lies coming from the WH. Believe in our freedoms. Thank you
all for your support. We won’t back down. #1A —
Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 8, 2018"

Truth? What's that?
Trump and his henchmen have no clue.

The Washington Post
reports:

"The Trump administration
is plainly upset with the behavior of a certain CNN reporter. But how far
is it willing to go to make its case that the reporter acted improperly
during a news conference with President Trump? One answer emerged Wednesday
night when White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tweeted a video of
the episode, involving CNN’s Jim Acosta, the network’s chief White House
correspondent. Experts said the video, in which Acosta is seen rebuffing
a press aide’s attempt to take a microphone out of his hands, was altered
to exaggerate the aggressiveness of Acosta’s actions. If that is the case,
the video may belong in a category rarely employed by democratic governments:
visual propaganda. The White House video, apparently made by a contributor
to the conspiracy-peddling website Infowars , speeds up the movement of
Acosta’s arms as the unidentified aide grabs at the mic during a heated
conversation between the reporter and Trump. The video tweeted by Sanders
also eliminated Acosta’s comment to the young woman — “Pardon me, ma’am”
— as he sought to continue questioning the president."

Here's the problem:

“As visual journalists,
we know that manipulating images is manipulating truth,” said the group’s
president, Whitney Shefte, a Washington Post videographer. “It’s deceptive,
dangerous and unethical. Knowingly sharing manipulated images is equally
problematic, particularly when the person sharing them is a representative
of our country’s highest office with vast influence over public opinion.”

"Totalitarian governments
have long recognized the value of altering photos and videos to manipulate
public opinion and perception. Officials were regularly airbrushed out
of state photos in the Soviet Union as dictators such as Joseph Stalin
purged internal enemies. Wartime governments regularly censor images or
release them selectively to maintain popular order and morale. Modern-day
regimes vigorously employ digital techniques to fool viewers; North Korea’s
propaganda ministry routinely alters images emanating from the isolated
nation, from photos of leader Kim Jong Un’s ears to state-issued pictures
of the country’s military prowess."

ABC News reports:

"President Donald Trump
claimed on Friday that a White House-released video depicting contact between
a staffer and a CNN reporter wasn't altered, and he seemingly threatened
to revoke the White House press credentials of more reporters. Trump insisted
that the video distributed by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders was simply a "close-up" and "was not doctored." "Nobody manipulated
it. All that is is a close-up," said the president, who then attacked the
reporter for asking the question and called him "dishonest." A frame-by-frame
comparison with an Associated Press video of the same incident from Trump's
postelection news conference Wednesday shows that the video tweeted by
Sanders appears to speed up CNN reporter Jim Acosta's arm movement when
he makes contact with a White House intern who was trying to take away
Acosta's microphone. The speedup appears to make the gesture more threatening."

Trump is a liar.
A congenital liar. Has no ability to withstand criticism. Remains
egregiously unfit for office.

NPR reports:

"CNN has filed a lawsuit
against the Trump administration after the White House suspended CNN Chief
White House Correspondent Jim Acosta's press credentials.

"CNN's complaint, filed
Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, calls the
move "an unabashed attempt to censor the press and exclude reporters from
the White House who challenge and dispute the President's point of view."
"While the suit is specific to CNN and Acosta, this could have happened
to anyone," CNN said in a statement to NPR. "If left unchallenged, the
actions of the White House would create a dangerous chilling effect for
any journalist who covers our elected officials." The lawsuit against Trump,
senior White House officials and the Secret Service argues that suspending
Acosta's press credentials violates his First Amendment rights to free
speech and his Fifth Amendment right to due process. It demands that his
credentials be immediately restored or, if not, that the matter be heard
by a neutral arbiter. It's also seeking a declaration that the decision
to suspend the credentials was unconstitutional."

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truly deserve.

"Eighteen years ago, Lorrie
Triplett's husband, Ensign Andrew Triplett, rode off on his bike to board
the destroyer USS Cole, heading for the Persian Gulf. It was the last time
she would see him. On Wednesday, she sat in the U.S. Supreme Court, and
she "really wanted to scream." Her husband was among 17 killed in 2000
when al-Qaida suicide bombers in a small boat attacked the Cole while it
was refueling in a harbor in Yemen. Dozens more men and women were injured.
They and the families of the dead sued the government of Sudan for allegedly
providing material support for the attack. Their path for this and similar
suits has been long and difficult, and now, to the consternation of the
victims and veterans groups, the Trump administration is siding with Sudan,
long designated a state sponsor of terrorism and now on the Trump travel
ban list."

Blatant betrayal.
Of our best and brightest. Raw nazism.

"The administration argues
that the $315 million in damages awarded to the victims in the case cannot
stand. The legal question is one that only a lawyer could love, but not
the people whose lives have been affected. The question is whether the
notification of the lawsuit was sent to the wrong address. The notice was
sent by registered mail to the Embassy of Sudan in Washington, D.C., addressed
to the nation's foreign minister and signed for by someone at the embassy.
Sudan contends that under U.S. law and international treaty, the notice
should have been sent to the foreign ministry in the Sudanese capital of
Khartoum. That position is supported not just by the Trump administration,
but also by Saudi Arabia, which faces similar lawsuits over the Sept. 11
attacks."

Goddamned traitors.
Nazi America. Where day is night, night is day, and shit smells perversely
sweet. All ass backwards.

"The argument is that
to allow such notifications to be made at an embassy would breach the "inviolability"
of embassies and consulates that is guaranteed under the Vienna Convention
on Diplomatic Relations. The Trump administration argues as well that if
Sudan and other countries can be served notice of lawsuits at embassies,
the U.S. could suffer a similar fate at its embassies. But lawyers for
the Cole victims counter that the U.S. has a firm policy of never accepting
such legal service at its embassies and that the U.S. has not had any difficulty
enforcing that policy over a period of more than four decades."

Trump and his henchmen
are traitors. Have determinedly, concertedly betrayed U.S. military
personnel and their survivors.

Here are the consequences
of Trump's intransigence:

"On Wednesday, when the
case was argued, a grim group of Cole survivors and relatives of the dead
sat in the chamber. Lorrie Triplett, the widow of Ensign Triplett, was
shaking when she emerged. Tears poured down her face as she talked about
her loss and that of her daughters. Even today, she said, she cannot believe
"how drastic" the effect has been on her life. "Never got his body back,"
she said softly. "Never. Never seen him ever again." The men who stood
next
to Triplett were angry. "Our own country, siding with the country that
harbors terrorists," said David Matthew Morales, who was injured on the
Cole. "It was very hurtful," he added, pulling a small piece of metal out
of his pocket. It was from the hull of the Cole, and he carries it
[with]
him everywhere. "We came here for accountability, and we wouldn't expect
our government to oppose its citizens receiving justice and holding those
accountable for a terrorist attack," said Jamal Gunn, whose brother was
killed on the Cole. "Our country should stand behind their soldiers and
sailors that's out there every day putting their life on the line for the
country," said Rick Harrison, a firefighter and machinist injured on the
Cole. "You can look at 9/11. They got justice. ... So why can't the U.S.S.
Cole get justice," said David Francis, whose sister was killed on the Cole."

Clearly, no longer possible
in Nazi America. Trump's Fourth Reich. We've lost ourselves.
Our country. We're no longer what we used to be.

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11-16-18

Trouble in Trump-Macron
'bromance.' The Washington Post reports:

"President Trump and French
President Emmanuel Macron met here Saturday amid tensions over Macron’s
call for a “true European army” — remarks the U.S. president deemed “very
insulting” moments after he landed here for World War I commemoration ceremonies
this weekend. There were some visible signs of strain between the two men
Saturday even as they exchanged warm words at the start of their bilateral
meeting at Elysee Palace. Appealing to Trump’s “America First” agenda,
Macron stressed publicly that European nations in the NATO alliance should
pay more in defense — an attempt to soothe Trump over one of his constant
irritations. “I do share President Trump’s views that we need a much better
burden-sharing with NATO,” Macron said at the start of their meeting, as
Trump sat on the edge of his chair with a tight smile on his face. “My
proposals for European defense are totally consistent with that.” Calling
Trump “my good friend,” Macron proclaimed “great solidarity” between the
two nations and said the leaders will discuss a litany of issues during
their one-on-one meeting, including Iran, Syria, Yemen, trade and climate
change."

Give me a break.

CBS News reports:

"Mr. Trump's visit to
France opened on a testy note after he unleashed an angry Twitter jab at
his host as he arrived for the celebration. Just as Air Force One touched
down in Paris Friday night, Mr. Trump tweeted that Macron "has just suggested
that Europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the
U.S., China and Russia. Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first
pay its fair share of NATO, which the U.S. subsidizes greatly!" Macron's
office said Mr. Trump misunderstood Macron's comments about sharing the
defense burden and the two men struck a more friendly tone as they opened
their meeting at the grand presidential residence. "We want to help Europe
but it has to be fair. Right now, the burden-sharing has been largely on
the United States," Mr. Trump said, adding that Macron "understands that
and he understands the United States can only do so much, in fairness to
the United States."

"President Trump flew
3,800 miles to this French capital city for ceremonies to honor the military
sacrifice in World War I, hoping to take part in the kind of powerful ode
to the bravery of the armed forces that he was unable to hold in Washington.
But on his first full day here, it rained on his substitute parade weekend.
Early Saturday, the White House announced Trump and the first lady had
scuttled plans, due to bad weather, for their first stop in the weekend’s
remembrance activities — a visit to the solemn Aisne Marne American Cemetery,
marking the ferocious Battle of Belleau Wood. It was not completely clear
why the Trumps were unable to attend. The cemetery is 50 miles from Paris.
Perhaps the president was planning to travel on Marine One, which is occasionally
grounded by the Secret Service. But the sight of dignitaries arriving at
other sites outside Paris, including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, led
some foreign policy analysts to speculate the U.S. commander in chief just
wasn’t up for it."

Apparently, wasn't.
Get this:

“It’s incredible that
a president would travel to France for this significant anniversary — and
then remain in his hotel room watching TV rather than pay in person his
respects to the Americans who gave their lives in France for the victory
gained 100 years ago tomorrow,” David Frum, who served as a speechwriter
to former president George W. Bush, wrote in tweets. Trump is actually
staying at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Paris. So began a weekend
in which Trump — battling on a number of political fronts in Washington
— seemed distracted and disengaged. Trump left Washington as the list of
White House worries piled up: newly empowered Democrats, criticism of his
pick for acting attorney general and backlash over his personal attacks
against journalists. Trump was in France in body but appeared unenthusiastic
in spirit."

The pressure is apparently
beginning to get to our nazi fuhrer:

"The White House said
Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would attend the Belleau ceremony in the Trumps’
absence, but Frum suggested Trump could have tried to scramble a motorcade
to keep his schedule. The cemetery has 2,288 gravesites honoring those
who died, including many Americans. The names of 1,060 more Americans who
went missing and whose bodies were not recovered are engraved on the walls
of the site. Trump held a bilateral meeting with Macron, but the U.S. president
appeared subdued, almost sullen, as Macron tried to mask growing tensions
between them. When Macron tried to pat Trump’s thigh, the president ignored
him and didn’t acknowledge the touch or reciprocate it — a marked difference
from their demonstrative power-grip handshakes and back slaps during previous
meetings."

NBC News reports:

"The White House’s bad-weather
call for Trump is not sitting well with some observers. Francois Heisbourg,
a political analyst and former campaign adviser to Macron, posted a photograph
on Twitter of someone bicycling in Paris and wrote the weather that kept
Trump from the cemetery is: “Nothing a cyclist can't handle, let alone
a presidential helo.” A member of the British Parliament and grandson of
legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Nicholas Soames, was
even more critical, calling Trump “pathetic” and “inadequate” on Twitter
because he “couldn’t even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen”
who “died with their face to the foe.” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
also participated in armistice events outside the city today, at a battle
site about two hours north of Paris by car.

"Today, I joined our delegation of Canadian veterans at Vimy Ridge — to
thank them for their service and to pay tribute to those who made the ultimate
sacrifice in the name of our freedom.

"A century and some change
after bugle calls for cease-fire drifted over European trench lines, the
French launched a salvo. “There is rain, but it does not matter,” the French
army said Monday on Twitter, alongside a photo of a rain-soaked recruit
crawling through an obstacle. “We remain motivated.” The French were
almost certainly trolling President Trump two days after inclement weather
led him to cancel a planned visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery
— a verdant hillside shrine of arcing headstones that mark the final resting
place for 2,289 U.S. troops, many of whom were killed in the Battle of
Belleau Wood. The names of 1,060 more who were never found are inscribed
on a wall there."

Apparently, Trump couldn't
have cared less. Think the following credible?

"The White House canceled
the visit, which would have been aboard the presidential helicopter Marine
One, after it was determined that the conditions offered “near-zero visibility,”
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, amid criticism and speculation
that Trump was not motivated to join other world leaders there by car instead.
“President Trump did not want to cause that kind of unexpected disruption
to the city and its people,” Sanders said. The cemetery is 50 miles outside
Paris, and it was not clear why alternative routes — commonly planned for
high-profile events — were not used in this case. The weather did not prevent
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel
and French President Emmanuel Macron from visits to other sites around
Paris."

Trump disgraced himself:

"Gen. Joseph F. Dunford
Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and White House Chief of Staff
John F. Kelly visited the cemetery on Saturday — a day and a place layered
with deep significance to U.S. military history. Saturday was the Marine
Corps’s 243rd birthday, and the men — both Marines — walked the cemetery
on the edge of Belleau Wood, which quickly became central to Marine lore
after the 1918 battle. A brigade of Marines joined two Army divisions in
the closing months of the war and fought brutal hand-to-hand combat in
the wood, occasionally contending with swirling poison gas. The Germans
sent numerous waves in a failed attempt to dislodge the Marines during
the battle, which lasted nearly a month."

Trump's sorry ass should
have accompanied both generals as they toured the cemetery. -- The
least this fascist bastard could have done to honor our war dead.

"And in April, Macron
gave the White House an oak sapling from Belleau Wood, where, he said,
“the blood [of Americans] was spilled to defend France.” German troops
nicknamed Marines “Teufel hunden” — devil dogs. The name stuck. Bulldogs
have become the mascot of the Corps. Now Marines who visit the cemetery
and battlefield are drawn to the village of Belleau right outside, where
a moss-flecked bulldog fountain spurts water from its mouth. It is customary
for Marines to drink from it, in homage to the Americans who never left
the wood."

The Washington Post
reports:

"President Trump likes
to throw Twitter bombs that explode in concentric circles of offensiveness.
He delivers speeches that contain insults and falsehoods. He announces
policies on a whim, some constitutionally questionable. But on a trip to
Europe, the president hardly said a word — and he still managed to outrage
at almost every turn.

"He looked uncomfortable
and listless in a bilateral meeting with Macron, whose sinewy energy stood
in stark contrast to Trump’s downbeat expression as the French leader patted
him on the thigh. He was a no-show at a scheduled tour of a military cemetery
for Americans, while other world leaders publicly paid homage to those
who died on the battlefield. Instead, the president holed up at the U.S.
ambassador’s residence, announcing hours later that he had spent a few
hours making calls and attending meetings — but not offering to whom or
about what. And on Sunday, Trump arrived separately from the 60 other leaders
at a World War I remembrance at the Arc de Triomphe. He had no speaking
role, sitting stone-faced as Macron railed against the rise of nationalism
— a rebuke of Trump’s professed worldview. The overall takeaway to many
was a president turning away from the world, a man occupying the office
of the leader of the free world who appeared withdrawn and unenthusiastic
on the global stage."

Trump remains unfit.
Glaringly, apparent.

“Watching the event from
France I cannot recall a time when America seemed so isolated,” David Axelrod,
who was a senior political adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote on
Twitter late Sunday. “America First feels like America Alone.”

Failed presidency not
even two years in.

NPR reports:

"At a ceremony in Paris
on Sunday to commemorate the end of World War I, world leaders made impassioned
pleas for global cooperation, with several making forceful denouncements
against rising forces of nationalism."

For damned good reason.
Rising nazism not only overseas, but right here in our formerly great country.

"In a speech at the Arc
de Triomphe, French President Emmanuel Macron took aim at the style of
nationalism that has been embraced by President Trump, warning a crowd
of dignitaries and heads of state about how the splintering of multilateral
institutions led to the first World War and now threaten to divide the
world once again. "The traces of this war never went away," Macron said.
"The old demons are rising again."

Indeed. They are.
Resurrection of Hitler's Third Reich to Trump's Fourth.

"Patriotism is the exact
opposite of nationalism," Macron continued. "Nationalism is a betrayal
of patriotism. In saying, 'Our interests first, whatever happens to the
others,' you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which
makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most
important: its moral values."

Point well made.

"Among the dozens of world
leaders in attendance were Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu. Most of the world leaders attending the Armistice Day event
were transported to the ceremony site in buses, and they then marched together
down the Champs-Élysées toward the Arc de Triomphe. Trump
and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived to the commemoration separately,
citing security reasons. Putin greeted Trump with a thumbs-up at the ceremony.
According to The Associated Press, Putin told Russian broadcaster RT that
he didn't speak with Trump in Paris but said the two will meet on the sidelines
of the Group of 20 summit in Argentina later this month.

"Later Sunday, Macron
convened a Paris Peace Forum, which he said would give world leaders an
opportunity to discuss the miscalculations that led to World War I and
promote concrete actions toward peace.

"France — and Macron —
are taking the lead to empower a global "resistance" of multilateralists
hoping to salvage, or rebuild, a dwindling rules-based order. The question
remains open whether the multilateralists can do that without U.S. leadership.
At the forum, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against taking peace
for granted, saying, "We have to work for it."

"Trump did not attend
the forum, instead visiting the Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial
outside of Paris before returning to Washington."

The Washington Post
reports:

"As he jetted to Paris
last Friday, President Trump received a congratulatory phone call aboard
Air Force One. British Prime Minister Theresa May was calling to celebrate
the Republican Party’s wins in the midterm elections — never mind that
Democrats seized control of the House — but her appeal to the American
president’s vanity was met with an ornery outburst. Trump berated May for
Britain not doing enough, in his assessment, to contain Iran. He questioned
her over Brexit and complained about the trade deals he sees as unfair
with European countries. May has endured Trump’s churlish temper before,
but still her aides were shaken by his especially foul mood, according
to U.S. and European officials briefed on the conversation."

Think this president in
full control of his faculties?

"For Trump, that testy
call set the tone for five days of fury — evident in Trump’s splenetic
tweets and described in interviews with 14 senior administration officials,
outside Trump confidants and foreign diplomats, many of whom spoke on the
condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. “He was
frustrated with the trip. And he’s itching to make some changes,” said
one senior White House official. “This is a week where things could get
really dicey.”

Think the nazi fit for
office?

"During his 43-hour stay
in Paris, Trump brooded over the Florida recounts and sulked over key races
being called for Democrats in the midterm elections that he had claimed
as a “big victory.” He erupted at his staff over media coverage of his
decision to skip a ceremony honoring the military sacrifice of World War
I. The president also was angry and resentful over French President Emmanuel
Macron’s public rebuke of rising nationalism, which Trump considered a
personal attack. And that was after his difficult meeting with Macron,
where officials said little progress was made as Trump again brought up
his frustrations over trade and Iran. “He’s just a bull carrying his own
china shop with him when­ever he travels the world,” presidential historian
Douglas Brinkley said."

Comfortable with Trump
and his finger figuratively on the nuclear button?

The Washington Post
reports:

"Responding to President
Trump’s attacks on his French counterpart, France’s government struck back
Wednesday, accusing Trump of lacking “common decency” by spewing invective
on the same day the country was commemorating the victims of a major 2015
terrorist attack. Benjamin Griveaux, France’s government spokesman, offered
the response a day after Trump unleashed a string of Twitter attacks on
President Emmanuel Macron. “Yesterday was November 13,” Griveaux said,
according to the minutes of a meeting of France’s Council of Ministers
-- remarks that were widely reported in French media. “We were commemorating
the murder of 130 of our people.” The Nov. 13, 2015, attacks, perpetrated
by a network of Islamic State-affiliated gunmen on a number of sites across
the French capital, including the Bataclan concert hall, were the bloodiest
on French soil since World War II. “So I’ll reply in English: ‘Common decency’
would have been appropriate,” Griveaux said."

Clearly, not possible
for the Trump nazi.

"On Tuesday -- two days
after flying home from a two-day visit to France -- Trump took to Twitter
to post multiple blistering attacks on Macron, France’s performance in
both world wars and France in general. He was responding in part to an
address Macron gave Sunday in Paris, where the French president used the
100th anniversary of the 1918 World War I armistice to condemn nationalism
as the “exact opposite of patriotism.” The remarks were seen by many as
a direct challenge to Trump, who has openly identified as a nationalist.
In his Tuesday tweets, Trump personally criticized Macron, who had previously
sought to curry favor with Washington. “The problem is that Emmanuel suffers
from a very low Approval Rating in France, 26%, and an unemployment rate
of almost 10%,” Trump wrote, attempting to explain Macron’s remarks. The
French unemployment rate is actually closer to 9 percent. This, for Trump,
was the reason Macron defended multilateralism beneath the Arc de Triomphe
in a solemn remembrance ceremony: “He was just trying to get onto another
subject.” “By the way, there is no country more Nationalist than France,”
Trump noted, “very proud people-and rightfully so!........”

Insufferable jackass.
... Only two years in, yet, a failed presidency.

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11-16-18

Trump loses another one.
NPR reports:

"A federal appeals court
in California has blocked the Trump administration from immediately terminating
an Obama-era program protecting from deportation young immigrants brought
illegally to the U.S. as children. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th
Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, ruled unanimously in
favor of a lower court's preliminary injunction against the administration's
attempt to phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The program
allows about 700,000 young immigrants to stay and work in the United States.
In January, U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted a request to keep
DACA operational while its future was being litigated. The ruling is the
latest legal setback for the Trump administration over DACA."

Doesn't your heart
bleed?

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

11-16-18

Trump loses yet another
one. NPR reports:

"A U.S. district judge
has issued an order blocking construction of the controversial transnational
Keystone XL Pipeline until the State Department conducts further study
of its impact on the environment. Judge Brian Morris' 54-page order, issued
late Thursday, overturns the Trump administrations's approval last year
of the proposed 1,179-mile pipeline and at least temporarily prevents it
from being built. Although the decision does not permanently halt the pipeline's
construction, it nevertheless comes as TransCanada, the Canadian company
that owns Keystone, is preparing to start construction in Montana, shipping
pipe to various locations throughout the state, the Great Falls Tribune
reports. The order stems from a lawsuit filed by the Indigenous Environmental
Network and North Coast Rivers Alliance, which alleges that the State Department
and TransCanada violated National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, the
environmental law described in the order as "the basic national charter
for protection of the environment."

The Washington Post
reports:

"A federal judge temporarily
blocked construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, ruling
late Thursday that the Trump administration had failed to justify its decision
granting a permit for the 1,200-mile long project designed to connect Canada’s
oil sands fields with Texas’s Gulf Coast refineries. The judge, Brian Morris
of the U.S. District Court in Montana, said the State Department ignored
crucial issues of climate change to further the president’s goal of letting
the pipeline be built. In doing so, the administration ran afoul of the
Administrative Procedure Act, which requires “reasoned” explanations for
government decisions, particularly when they represent reversals of well-studied
actions. It was a major defeat for President Trump, who attacked the Obama
administration for stopping the project in the face of protests and an
environmental impact study. Trump signed an executive order two days into
his presidency setting in motion a course reversal on the Keystone XL pipeline,
as well as another major pipeline, Dakota Access."

More importantly?

"The ruling highlights
a broader legal vulnerability in the Trump administration’s push to roll
back Obama-era environmental protections. Since Trump took office, federal
courts have found repeatedly that his agencies have short-circuited the
regulatory process in areas ranging from water protections to chemical
plant safety operations. Robust environmental and administrative procedure
laws, many dating back to the 1970s, have given the administration’s opponents
plenty of legal ammunition."

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11-16-18

Once again, Trump is following
in the footsteps of his fascist mentors. NPR reports:

"The Trump administration
is taking steps to stem the flow of Central American migrants crossing
the U.S. border from Mexico. The administration issued a new rule Thursday
designed to prohibit migrants who cross the border outside of designated
entry points from seeking asylum in the United States. The measure is almost
certain to face legal challenges. Advocates say federal law allows anyone
on U.S. soil to petition for asylum, even if that person crossed the border
illegally. The administration wants to get around that provision by using
the president's broad authority to exclude any immigrant — or class of
immigrants — deemed "detrimental to the interests of the United States."
That's the same authority the president used when he issued his travel
ban on a variety of mostly Muslim countries. That ban was initially blocked
by the courts but after several revisions was ultimately upheld by the
U.S. Supreme Court. Judges may face a similar test, weighing the president's
broad authority to exclude migrants against the right to apply for asylum.
"The question becomes, if these two provisions conflict, which one wins?"
said Stephen Legomsky, former chief counsel for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services. He suspects the right to apply for asylum would carry the day."

"President Donald Trump
fulfilled his midterm promise to crack down on undocumented immigrants
crossing the Southwest border on Friday by signing a proclamation that
will make it harder for immigrants to claim asylum if they are caught crossing
the border between designated ports of entry. Starting just after midnight
on Saturday morning, asylum-seekers who do not go through ports of entry
will be apprehended, detained and deported unless they can meet a higher
bar, such as proving they would be tortured if they were sent home. Within
hours, the American Civil Liberties Union sued to block the new restrictions,
calling it "the asylum ban." "The asylum ban is not just unlawful but will
put families in real danger. We hope that the courts will step in to remedy
this injustice," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigrants'
Rights Project.

"The new restrictions
will apply for 90 days, but could end earlier, officials said. Under international
law, however, asylum-seekers are permitted to make a claim regardless of
where they enter. The administration was expecting lawsuits to be filed,
which could keep the new policy from going into effect, but officials told
NBC News that they expect the Supreme Court will eventually uphold their
right to block asylum seekers with Justice Brett Kavanaugh now on the bench."

Should that happen, time
in January for the Democratic House to impeach the Kavanaugh nazi.
Tie up the GOP Senate indefinitely with the trial.

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11-16-18

Think Republican judges
are fit to sit on the bench in Texas? Believe they have the temperament
necessary for the job? NBC News reports:

"A Houston district court
judge who lost a re-election bid on Tuesday is facing criticism for releasing
a majority of the juvenile defendants who appeared before him Wednesday
after allegedly asking them whether they planned to kill anyone. District
Court Judge Glenn Devlin, a Republican, lost his seat Tuesday to Democratic
opponent Natalia Oakes — in a wave of 59 conservative jurists who had been
ousted by Harris County voters, NBC Houston affiliate KPRC reported. And
on Wednesday morning, Devlin had made a decision that shocked Steve Halpert,
juvenile division chief for Harris County's Public Defender's Office. "The
juveniles were asked whether they were going to, if released, whether they
would kill somebody," Halpert told KPRC. "It was a little bit shocking
because that's not a question Judge Devlin would ever ask. Or any judge."

We've got a problem.
Consider the following:

"The judge’s actions were
especially incongruous given his track record of incarcerating juvenile
defendants, according to local media. A Houston Chronicle investigation
in October revealed that Devlin and Judge John Phillips accounted for more
than one-fifth of all children sent to Texas juvenile prisons last year,
sending them “younger and for less-serious offenses than the county’s third
juvenile court." And even the people who are tasked with helping young
men and women fight their charges were alarmed."

For damned good reason.

"I am baffled by why he
did it," Harris County Chief Public Defender Alex Bunin told NBC News on
Thursday. "It's definitely not good for the kids in that they are being
released without any conditions." Bunin said he was worried about the kids
released Wednesday, claiming that some of them had no parents or guardians
to take them home at the time of their release and that others need support
services like mental health treatment. The public defender also said he
is sympathetic to the district attorney's concerns saying the judge’s move
could “endanger the public," according to a statement by Harris County
District Attorney Kim Ogg."

You think?

"Neither side is happy,"
Bunin said. "This is different in that it’s across the board. It's just
never been done without any consideration of the effect of the release
of the child and the community."

"The ACLU condemned the
judge’s actions Wednesday calling it "improper" and saying it was "motivated
by partisan interests" or the "result of his political loss." The organization
has since called on the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct to launch
an investigation. "Judge Devlin’s mass release of children today, without
any apparent concern for the children's safety or for ensuring that they
are released to their parents, proves his detachment from the needs of
each child,” the ACLU said in a statement. “I mean, the day after the election
when he wasn't re-elected, he changed his policy,” Bunin said. “There doesn't
seem to be any intellectual reasoning for it rather than to make a statement.”
Texas’ State Commission on Judicial Conduct told NBC News Thursday that
they cannot “confirm or deny” the existence of a complaint against the
judge due to confidentiality rules in the state, according to Eric Vinson,
executive director of the commission."

No question. We've
got a problem.

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11-16-18

Think Trump's not a male
chauvinist pig? LOL. NBC News reports:

"President Donald Trump
personally asked the publisher of the National Enquirer, his longtime friend
David Pecker, to help his presidential campaign by silencing women who
might come forward with details of his sexual relationships with them,
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday."

No question, the bastard's
a 'pecker.' LOL.

"According to the Journal,
then-candidate Trump asked Pecker during an August 2015 meeting at Trump
Tower what he could do to help Trump's campaign."

Imagine that.
LOL.

"Pecker responded by offering
to use his tabloid to buy off women who might attempt to go public with
their past sexual experiences with Trump by acquiring the exclusive rights
to the stories but never publishing them, a practice known as "catch and
kill." At more than 3,000 words, the Journal's article is the most detailed
account to date of Trump's alleged involvement in the payoffs that were
made to ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
The Journal said it based its reporting on interviews with three dozen
people with "direct knowledge of the events or who have been briefed on
them, as well as court papers, corporate records and other documents."
In mid-2016, Trump requested that Pecker kill a story from McDougal, who'd
said she had an affair with Trump more than a decade ago, by buying her
silence, the Journal said."

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11-16-18

Think the Trump nazi's
not a goddamned racist? The Washington Post reports:

"President Trump’s verbal
assaults against black reporters, candidates and lawmakers have renewed
criticism that the president employs insults rooted in racist tropes aimed
at making his African American targets appear unintelligent, untrustworthy
and unqualified."

Par for the course for
an ignorant racist, bigoted nazi.

"Over the past several
days, including before he left Washington for an Armistice Day ceremony
here this weekend, Trump has launched personal attacks against a trio of
black female journalists. He accused one of asking “a lot of stupid questions.”
He demanded another “sit down” at a news conference and followed up later
by calling her a “loser.” He lambasted a third for asking, in his view,
a “racist question.”

"Trump recently called
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum (D), a gubernatorial candidate in Florida,
a “thief,” and declared that Stacey Abrams, the former minority leader
of the state House in Georgia and the Democratic candidate for governor
there, was “not qualified” for the job. A feature of his campaign rallies
ahead of Tuesday’s elections was mocking Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.),
a black lawmaker who has been highly critical of him, and calling her a
“low-IQ person.”

The truth in reality is
Trump is perfectly describing himself as he casts these baseless
aspersions.

"Trump’s supporters say
he fights all opponents with equal gusto, and he has gone after other reporters
in an escalation of his war against the media since emerging from the bruising
midterm elections — most notably stripping the White House pass of CNN’s
Jim Acosta. But the president’s rhetoric toward prominent African Americans
is being singled out as far more offensive."

Intentionally, designedly
so. No way for a racist nazi to effectively hide his bigotry,
however. There for all to see in all its 'glory.'

“His supporters are right,
he does attack everyone. That’s clearly true,” said Adia Harvey Wingfield,
a sociology professor at Washington University in St. Louis who writes
frequently about race and gender. “But there’s also a clear commonality
in the attacks he levels against people of color and black professionals.
These are straight out of historic playbooks about black workers and professionals
in particular — not being qualified, not being intelligent or having what
it takes to succeed in a predominantly white environment.”

When he does this, truly
betrays his profound boundless ignorance for all to see.

"The latest example came
Friday when the president stopped on the South Lawn of the White House
on his way to Marine One to field shouted questions from the assembled
media. He was asked several questions about the role of Matthew G. Whitaker,
who he appointed as acting attorney general Wednesday, as well as about
several other topics. But when Abby Phillip, a CNN correspondent, asked
whether Trump wanted Whitaker to rein in the special counsel’s ongoing
Russia investigation, he snapped. “What a stupid question that is,” Trump
replied to Phillip, who is black. “What a stupid question,” he repeated,
pointing his finger at her. “But I watch you a lot. You ask a lot of stupid
questions.”

Aren't you talking
about yourself, Mr. 'President?'

"The attack prompted an
outpouring of support from fellow journalists, Democrats and others for
Phillip, who previously covered the White House for The Washington Post.
Many praised her for asking the most important and pertinent question of
the day."

"But Trump’s supporters
reveled in the exchange, holding it up as an example of Trump showing his
tormentors who is the boss. “If you ask stupid questions, be prepared for
@realDonaldTrump to call you out. #MAGA,” Harlan Z. Hill, a Republican
operative and commentator, wrote on Twitter to his 171,000 followers, linking
to a video clip of the exchange. The tweet had racked up more than 1,800
retweets and 5,000 “likes” within a few hours."

Proof positive 'can
fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.' LOL.

"CNN’s communications
department defended Phillip, saying that “she asked the most pertinent
question of the day. The @realDonaldTrump’s personal insults are nothing
new. And never surprising.” Several White House officials did not respond
to a request for comment for this report."

Proof positive they're
not all clueless idiots.

"More recently, Michael
Cohen, who served for years as Trump’s personal lawyer before they severed
ties after Cohen was indicted, said he had heard Trump use racist language
in the past. Asked about the allegations at the White House on Wednesday,
Trump flatly denied it. “I would never do that and I don’t use racist remarks,”
he said."

Someone's lying.
Guess who.

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11-16-18

The United States to date
has certainly been helping Saudi Arabia commit war crimes in Yemen.
Think that's about to change? NBC News reports:

"The United States will
soon suspend its mission to re-fuel Saudi Arabia’s military aircraft flying
in Yemen, according to two U.S. officials and one Senate staffer. A Senate
staffer said the decision is a means to pre-empt a potentially damaging
debate and vote in Congress. The political climate on the Hill has turned
hostile to Saudi Arabia over the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal
Khashoggi and the war in Yemen, the staffer said, adding that some Republican
lawmakers who opposed suspending refueling now favor the move."

The fascist bastards now
fear the political damage. Imagine that.

"Saudi Arabia said later
Friday, in a statement carried by state-run media, that “in consultation
with the United States” it has requested the end of in-flight refueling
— placing the decision for the change on Riyadh rather than Washington."

Believe it?

"The Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, and the member countries of the Coalition to Support legitimacy
in Yemen, continually pursue improvements to military professionalism and
self-sufficiency," the Saudi statement said. The U.S. military was re-fueling
about 20 percent of all Saudi aircraft that fly as part of the operation
in Yemen."

Aiding and abetting the
Saudis in their concerted, determined effort to kill innocent civilians
and other non-combatants.

Clearly, nonetheless,
the United States will continue aiding the Saudis to commit these war crimes:

"But the U.S. will not
curtail intelligence sharing with the coalition, and will continue “limited
intelligence support in defense of Saudi Arabia,” a defense official said."

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11-16-18

The national socialists,
fascists, nazis at Fox News remain hopelessly clueless. Out of touch
with reality. NBC News reports:

"Rep.-elect Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., ripped Fox News on Friday for mocking "working-class
people" after the news channel did a segment on her struggle to rent an
apartment in Washington, D.C. "As I mentioned, we’ve been preparing and
will be fine. However, it's been very revealing to see how gleefully Fox
News hosts crack jokes about working-class people. It reveals what they
actually think about us," she tweeted.

"Ocasio-Cortez, 29, became
the youngest woman ever elected to the House on Tuesday when she won her
race in New York's 14th congressional district of Queens and the Bronx.
She was thrust into the national spotlight after she beat longtime Democratic
Rep. Joe Crowley in an unexpected primary upset earlier this year. She
revealed to The New York Times on Thursday that she will not start receiving
her salary until she assumes office in January. "I have three months without
a salary before I'm a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment?
Those little things are very real," she told the paper. Representatives
are paid $174,000 annually."

Not paid until they take
office.

"During a Fox News panel
Friday morning, the hosts and guests derided Ocasio-Cortez's comments,
suggesting it was a possible political ploy from the self-identified Democratic
Socialist. Fox News contributor Judy Miller called it "a brilliant
political line" that will play well with her base, but also admitted that
the cost of living in Washington, D.C., is expensive. "I think what she's
talking about is all of the money in Washington, all of the wealth in Washington,
all of the power and a little, simple person like her from New York can't
find a place to live,” Miller said. Fox News correspondent Ed Henry slammed
Ocasio-Cortez on the panel, suggesting that she could have been saving
her money rather than embracing her newfound celebrity. "Some of those
(photo) shoots she had during the campaign, she had these multi-thousand
dollar outfits that could pay a month's rent in Washington, D.C.," he said."

This young woman figuratively
came out swinging, took no shit from the nazi element at Fox:

"Ocasio-Cortez then slammed
their remarks in several tweets. "It is bizarre to see 1%-salaried anchors
laugh at the US housing crisis," she said. "There is no reason to be ashamed
or embarrassed. Mocking lower incomes is exactly how those who benefit
from + promote wealth inequality the most keep everyday people silent about
1 of the worst threats to American society: that the rich are getting richer
and the poor, poorer."

Goes on and on.
Ocasio-Cortez seems to have clearly forgotten Marxist socialism failed
a quarter-century ago. Had been failing for decades. -- Five
year program after five-year program massive failures in the former Soviet
Union. National socialists, fascists, nazis at Fox News seem to have
similarly forgotten laissez-faire capitalism, that is unregulated or poorly
regulated capitalism, is failing right here in Nazi America. -- Middle
class and bottom suffering extinction due to zero-sum, winner-take-all
approach of the nazi element. Then again, the idiots on the Far Right
cannot, will not be confused with the handwriting on the wall. To
say nothing of the truth.

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11-16-18

Trump and his henchmen
remain out to lunch vis a vis Iran. NBC News reports:

"Senior officials in the
Trump administration are convinced the Iranian regime is vulnerable to
collapse and that tough U.S. economic sanctions could hasten its demise,
foreign diplomats and former U.S. officials told NBC News. President Donald
Trump himself has questioned if the regime can last. "When I came in here,
it was a question of when would they take over the Middle East," Trump
said in an August interview with Bloomberg News. "Now it's a question of
will they survive. It's a big difference in one and a half years." But
European allies and intelligence experts disagree, and see Washington's
forecast as a case of wishful thinking. While acknowledging the regime's
growing economic and political troubles, European governments believe the
Iranian leadership remains firmly entrenched and that any attempt to topple
the government could produce a worse outcome, the diplomats said."

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11-16-18

Once again, the Israeli
aggressor has struck. CBS News reports:

"Israel carried out airstrikes
in the Gaza Strip on Monday after dozens of rockets were fired from the
Palestinian territory into Israel. Clashes which erupted during an Israeli
special forces operation in Gaza late Sunday had threatened to derail efforts
to restore calm to the Palestinian enclave after months of unrest. Seven
Palestinians were killed in the overnight clashes, one of whom was a local
commander for Hamas's armed wing. One Israeli army officer was also killed.
At least six Israelis were injured later on Monday when dozens of rockets
were fired from Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short a trip
to Paris to commemorate the end of World War I to rush home as tensions
rose. Israel stressed its operation was an intelligence-gathering mission
and "not an assassination or abduction." The statement from Israeli military
spokesman Ronen Manelis signaled that the mission did not go as planned
and resulted in the clash, which Palestinian security sources said included
Israeli air strikes. An Israeli ground operation to kill or abduct militants
inside the Gaza Strip would be rare. Hamas, the Islamist movement that
runs the blockaded enclave, and its armed wing, spoke of a "cowardly Israeli
attack" and an "assassination", vowing revenge. Hamas's armed wing said
an Israeli special forces team had infiltrated near Khan Yunis in the southern
Gaza Strip in a civilian car. Israeli air strikes followed when the operation
failed, it said in a statement. Israel's military had not confirmed those
details. Gaza's health ministry said seven Palestinians were killed.

The Washington Post
reports:

"Israel’s hawkish Defense
Minister Avigdor Liberman announced his resignation Wednesday, citing his
opposition to a cease-fire with Hamas following the worst outbreak of violence
in Gaza since a 50-day war in the summer of 2014. In a televised news conference,
Liberman, who became defense minister in 2016, said that agreeing to a
cease-fire was “surrendering to terror.” He has been a proponent of firm
military action against Hamas, the Islamist militant group that controls
the Gaza Strip, even if it risked a wider conflict. “There is no other
definition, no other significance, but a surrender to terror,” Liberman
said. “What we are doing now as a country is buying short-term quiet at
the cost of our long-term security.” The withdrawal of his party from government
leaves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a thin one-seat majority
in Israel’s parliament, known as the Knesset — controlling just 61 of 120
seats. As he resigned, Liberman called for elections to be held as soon
as possible."

Growing political trouble
in Israeli aggressor 'paradise':

"All eyes are now on Education
Minister Naftali Bennett, leader of Israel’s Jewish Home party, another
right-wing politician who has called for a stronger military response to
Gaza. Bennett, who has a fractious relationship with Netanyahu, is demanding
to take Liberman’s place or his party will leave the coalition, according
to senior officials in his party."

Hopefully, will quickly
occur. Anything to destabilize the Israeli aggressor.

"Palestinian armed factions
in Gaza announced the cease-fire on Tuesday night after a bout of fighting
triggered by a botched Israeli operation into the Hamas-controlled strip.
Seven militants, including a Hamas commander, were killed in the incident,
which also claimed the life of an Israeli officer. Militants fired more
than 460 rockets toward Israeli communities near Gaza in what they said
was a response to the deaths, as Israeli jets pounded 160 targets in Gaza,
destroying several buildings. The cease-fire announced by Hamas Tuesday
night was still holding Wednesday even though there was no official Israeli
confirmation it had been accepted. Residents of the southern Israeli communities
have protested what they called the government’s capitulation."

Sadly, the Israeli aggressor
has it ass backwards. Been so since 1948.

"Demonstrations celebrating
the cease-fire as a victory against Israel were held in Gaza on Tuesday
night. Hamas then described Liberman’s announcement as another win. “The
resignation of Liberman is a political victory for Gaza,” said Hamas spokesman
Sami Abu Zuhri. He said it was an admission of defeat and showed Hamas
had succeeded in “creating a political shake-up in the occupation.” Liberman
said his resignation comes after weeks of disagreement with Netanyahu over
a course of action on how to handle ongoing tensions with the coastal Palestinian
enclave, whose rulers have called for Israel’s destruction. Last week Israel
facilitated the transfer of $15 million in cash from Qatar to Gaza to pay
salaries of civil servants and employees of the Hamas-run government, as
part of a wider deal aimed at alleviating the growing humanitarian crisis
in the territory."

None of this is sustainable.
Has not been since 1948 when the United States, Europe, and the United
Nations bequeathed Palestine to survivors of the Holocaust, -- without
consulting the Palestinians.

"It was part of an understanding
that would have entailed economic aid for Gaza, including a cash injection
and international reconstruction projects, in return for Hamas clamping
down on border demonstrations and preventing the use of incendiary kites
that have been launched across the border fence into Israel. Netanyahu
said on Sunday that the process was to maintain Israel’s security by preventing
a collapse in the humanitarian situation for the 2 million civilians “held
hostage” by Hamas. Liberman said the transfer of the money was a “turning
point” for him. “Everyone saying the money will be regulated after entering
Gaza, is wrong — to put it mildly,” he said. “The money went first of all
to the terrorists’ families.” The Moldovan-born minister said it was no
secret that he and the prime minister held differences of opinion. “I did
not agree to allow Qatari money to enter [into Gaza],” he said. “I had
to allow it only after the prime minister announced it.”

Goes on and on.
None of this is going to end well. None of it.

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11-16-18

Think racism isn't alive
and well in Nazi America? NBC News reports:

"A video of Sen. Cindy
Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., who faces a runoff this month against an African-American
Democrat, joking about attending "a public hanging" went viral Sunday as
she insisted there was nothing negative about her remark. "If he invited
me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row," Hyde-Smith said during
a campaign stop in Tupelo, Mississippi. The man she was referring to was
identified as a local rancher.

"The video was posted
by Lamar White Jr., the publisher of The Bayou Brief, a nonprofit newssite
in Louisiana. White told Mississippi Today that he did not take the video,
and it was recorded on Nov. 2, before the election. Mississippi has a difficult
racial history that includes 581 lynchings from 1882 to 1968, the most
of any state in that period, according to the NAACP."

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11-16-18

Think the following 'funny?'
A 'joke?' CBS News reports:

"Police in Wisconsin are
investigating a prom photo that's led to growing international outrage.
The photo, posted to Twitter Sunday, appears to show more than 30 male
students from Baraboo High School's class of 2019 making a Nazi salute.
"As soon as I heard the photographer say, 'Raise your hand,' I knew what
was going to happen," senior Jordan Blue told CBS News correspondent Adriana
Diaz. Blue, who is in the photo, refused to participate. "Did he
say anything to make it clear that it was raise your hand in this way as
in this Nazi symbol?" Diaz asked. "He did not say raise your hand in a
Nazi symbol way. And I'm pretty sure my classmates just interpreted as
raise your hand, let's do this as a joke," Blue said, adding that he thinks
the others knew what the symbol represented. "It did not represent my morals,
and I could not do something that I didn't believe in," Blue said. The
photo surfaced in a now-deleted tweet on Sunday with the caption: "We even
got the black kid to throw it up." At least one student is seen making
the OK gesture, which some associate with white supremacists."

Think the photographer
didn't know precisely what he was doing?

"The photographer, Peter
Gust, defended the students in an interview with a local TV station, saying
the gestures are being taken out of context."

Think so?

"I said, 'OK boys, you're
going to say goodbye to your parents. So wave,'" Gust said. "For society
to now turn it around and now blame these kids is absolutely wrong."

Jesus Christ. A
crock of shit. Hundreds of thousands of American troops fought and
died fighting this goddamned Nazi scourge. Second World War European
Theater.

"Baraboo school board
members demanded action Monday night. "They seriously need to do some major
apologizing when this is settled, and they need to be educated," one school
board member said. The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks anti-Semitic
behavior, found the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. rose from
1,267 in 2016 to 1,986 in 2017 – a 57 percent increase and the largest
single-year increase on record. Asked whether the students are regretful,
Blue said, "I think so." "Some of these people have bright futures ahead
of them. ... So why did they do it?" Blue said. Blue said at least one
parent yelled for the students to stop while the photo was being taken.
The Baraboo school district condemned the gestures and said it's investigating.
The Auschwitz Memorial in Poland responded to the photo on Twitter warning
of the "danger of hateful ideology."

Photographer's head?
Securely lodged up his ass.

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11-16-18

Additional follow up on
yet another Republican national socialist who is no more than a congenital
liar and racist in the mold of the Trump nazi. NPR reports:

"Rep. Steve King, the
Iowa Republican known for hard-line stances on immigration and racist remarks,
challenged a conservative magazine to release audio to prove that he had
compared immigrants to "dirt." So The Weekly Standard did."

Did it ever.
LOL. To its great credit. Hat's off.

"The magazine reported
last week that King, who won reelection earlier this month despite being
called out for his white nationalists views, made the incendiary comment.
On Friday, King tweeted in response that the magazine had joined the Huffington
Post "at the bottom of the lying journalistic gutter." He claimed the article's
reporter was lying: "Just release the full tape. Leftists lies exist without
original sources because they are false and manufactured accusations,"
he tweeted.

"Rachael
@RachaelBL Just release the full tape. Leftists lies exist without original
sources because they are false and manufactured accusations. Weekly Standard
is transitioning into “Antifa News”. https://t.co/oeoQ0c2QJ2 —
Steve King (@SteveKingIA) November 10, 2018"

The magazine stuck it
hard to the lying nazi:

"The Standard on Saturday
published a YouTube video containing the audio to the article. "We stand
by the story," the magazine's editor-in-chief Stephen Hayes said. The tape
was reportedly recorded during a campaign stop on Nov. 5 while King bantered
with supporters in a restaurant. King discussed his "patented pheasant
noodle soup" that includes a sprinkle of homegrown jalapeño peppers.
Talking about those peppers, he said:

"KING:
I raised a bunch this year and they didn't have enough bite. So I guess
I'm going to have to go get some dirt from Mexico to grow the next batch.

"UNIDENTIFIED
WOMAN: Trust me, it's on its way.

"KING:
Well, yeah, there's plenty of dirt. It's coming from West Coast, too, and
a lot of other places, besides. This is the most dirt we've ever seen.

"The unidentified woman's
comments are seemingly about the caravan of Central American migrants currently
headed to the U.S. to seek asylum. As the conservative magazine said (emphasis
theirs), "Iowa does have a topsoil depletion problem, but it's hard to
imagine that the audience and King were discussing the shipment of soil
from out of country or from California." King's chief of staff, Sarah Stevens,
told The Washington Post that King thought the woman was referring to the
"leftist media" when she mentioned dirt — not immigrants. "We quoted Representative
King at length, on purpose, to provide readers with all of the context
for his remarks," reads an editor's note on the article. "Steve King never
mentions the media in his remarks. To claim he was referring to the media
when he worried about 'dirt' coming from Mexico is absurd."

"The
Weekly Standard remains, proudly, a reporting-driven, conservative journal
of opinion. @RubensteinAdam is a great reporter. There are no lies, willful
or otherwise. The story is accurate and very well told. Our reporting wouldn't
focus on your bigotry if you weren't a bigot. https://t.co/5K7Ace22Eq —
Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) November 10, 2018"

Way to go. Let it
rip. Expose this piece of human excrement for precisely whom and
what he is.

"King's views aren't exactly
a secret — on immigration, he said on Twitter last year, "We can't restore
our civilization with somebody else's babies." In August, King did an interview
with Austria's Freedom Party — which was founded by a former Nazi officer
— in which he talked about the apparent decline of Western civilization
and claimed immigrants are replacing white Europeans. Some top Republicans
including Steve Stivers, the chairman of the House Republican Campaign
Committee, have distanced themselves from King after the Pittsburgh shooting
in a synagogue that saw 11 dead brought more attention to the lawmaker."

The only way this racist
nazi shit will end is for it to see the light of day. No better disinfectant
than full sunlight.

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11-9-18

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

Think the following justice?
Sufficient? NPR reports:

"The hotel chain Motel
6 has agreed to pay $7.6 million dollars to settle a class-action lawsuit
after multiple Motel 6 locations gave guest lists to Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents. Sharing those lists led to arrests and deportations
of an as-yet-unknown number of hotel guests. The settlement deal was tentatively
reached in July but details were not public until this week. The agreement,
which still needs to be approved by a federal judge, calls for Motel 6
to pay money directly to affected guests and also impose tighter controls
over private information. Motel 6 has acknowledged the guest lists were
given to authorities but denied that senior management was aware of the
practice. As of last fall, the company said it had called for all locations
to stop sharing guest lists with ICE."

Too little, too late.
Damage already done.

"News of the practice
first broke last September when the Phoenix New Times investigated two
corporate-owned Motel 6 locations in Phoenix. One anonymous hotel clerk
told the alt weekly, "We send a report every morning to ICE — all the names
of everybody that comes in ... we do the audit and we push a button and
it sends it to ICE."

Goddamned fascist police-state.

"With all of these cases
we looked at, the person didn't have any outstanding warrant," Antonia
Farzan, one of the New Times reporters, told NPR. "There weren't any complaints.
There was no sign that they were violating other laws while they were staying
at the motel. "In other words, they weren't bothering anybody. They had
paid to rent a room. So it's hard to see what problem it was causing for
the motel to have them as a customer."

No question. F--king
right. No excuse for forwarding private information to the criminal
jackbooted bastards in blue.

"A few months later, officials
in Washington State said that six Motel 6 locations in the Puget Sound
region admitted to the same guest-list sharing practice, which violates
consumer protection laws. "The hotel turned over the guest list of everybody
staying at the hotel. So thousands of individuals had their names turned
over to ICE," Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson told NPR in
January. "And according to our interviews with employees at Motel 6, ICE
agents would circle the names that looked Latino sounding and ran those
names through a database and then would detain individuals based on those
random checks."

F--king racists.

"Washington State filed
a lawsuit against Motel 6 that is still pending."

Imagine that.

"The new settlement deal
would resolve a separate class-action lawsuit, filed in Phoenix in January
on behalf of affected guests. The lawsuit alleges that disclosing guests'
personal information to immigration authorities was a "corporate policy"
that violated customers' rights to privacy (as well as Motel 6's own privacy
policy) and discriminated on the basis of race, by targeting Latinos. The
settlement agreement doesn't include any admission of wrongdoing, and Motel
6 continues to deny that it had any illegal policies."

"Motel 6 has said the
sharing of the guest lists was "implemented at the local level" without
senior management's knowledge. Ferguson, the Washington state attorney
general, was skeptical of that local-practice claim when he spoke to NPR
in January. "I asked my team to investigate. And we now know what ... Motel
6 said back in September [2017] was not true," he said. "It's far more
widespread than they allowed the public to believe."

Then, why the hell didn't
you criminally prosecute them? Why not?

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11-9-18

In follow up to the last
edition, NBC News reports:

"Jacob Wohl, a former
hedge fund manager turned pro-Trump conspiracy peddler, was a small-time
but persistent figure on the far-right for the past two years. Then came
the revelation of his apparent involvement as a central character in a
bizarre plot to smear special counsel Robert Mueller. Now the FBI has been
asked to investigate the alleged scheme, and Wohl may achieve the notoriety
he’s been chasing for years."

How about a prison cell?

"The details of that plot
to discredit Mueller were revealed on Tuesday, when journalists reported
receiving suspicious emails from a woman claiming she had been offered
money to fabricate accusations of sexual misconduct against the special
prosecutor investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. NBC
News traced a document outlining the Mueller allegations to a company whose
website and telephone were registered to Wohl and his family."

Couldn't be, could it?
LOL.

"Wohl, a self-described
“Trumpenomics expert,” was perhaps best known on the internet for his dispatches
from “hipster coffee shops” where Democrats supposedly secretly disclosed
their love for the president. But as a writer on conspiracy sites, with
178,000 Twitter followers along for the ride, Wohl also earned a place
among President Donald Trump’s most ardent and trolly online defenders.
He was the first to tease that allegations were coming against Mueller,
tweeting early Tuesday: “Several media sources tell me that a scandalous
story about Mueller is breaking tomorrow. Should be interesting. Stay tuned!"

This idiot has his head
securely lodged up his ass. None of this adds up, but did get the
attention of Mueller who passed it on to the FBI.

"Those allegations, called
“very credible,” by Wohl, were dropped hours later in a dossier on Gateway
Pundit, a far-right, often inaccurate website for which Wohl writes. That
dossier seems to have been written by Surefire Intelligence — the company
tagline for the self-described “private intel agency” appears on the header
of each page, and at least one woman has come forward with an email signed
by an agent of Surefire, asking her for allegations against Mueller in
exchange for money. Wohl denied any connection to Surefire Intelligence,
telling NBC News: “I don't have any involvement in any investigations of
any kind. I'm not quite that cool.” But Surefire Intelligence is linked
to Wohl in numerous ways, including domain records and a company phone
that redirects to a number registered to Wohl’s mother."

Fascinating, isn't it?

"Wohl, 20, has a history
of schemes. He was once billed as a teenage financial guru, but his penchant
for lying — about his success and credentials — cut his investment career
short and attracted investigations by government and industry regulators."

Apparently, precisely
why Mueller passed on what he had on this latest alleged scheme to the
FBI. ... Would fit right in with the Trump nazi though, wouldn't
he? LOL.

"Now, faced with allegations
that he created a fake intelligence company to fabricate harassment accusations
against Mueller, Wohl seems to be digging in with a new conspiracy theory,
invented just for him. “Someone inside Mueller’s office likely sent out
the hoax email claiming to be a woman offered payment to make an accusation
against Mueller!” Wohl tweeted Wednesday. “They know that Mueller’s real
victims are coming forward! Tick tock…”

Think this young charlatan
won't wind up with his ass in prison? Be interesting to see how the
FBI handles this. Stay tuned.

NBC News reports:

"Jacob Wohl, a pro-Trump
fan of conspiracy theories, and Jack Burkman, a conservative lobbyist and
radio host, stood in front of a half-full room of reporters and activists
at a D.C.-area Holiday Inn Thursday to detail their allegations of sexual
misconduct against Robert Mueller, the special counsel probing Russian
interference in the 2016 election. The woman who they said has made those
allegations, a Los Angeles native in her 30s, was slated to attend the
news conference and give her own account. But, Wohl said, she feared for
her life and on arriving in Washington, "panicked and boarded a flight
to another location." Burkman promised she would appear at another news
conference in the near future."

Think so?
LOL.

"Wohl and Burkman took
turns speaking at the podium, detailing the allegations, complimenting
each other, and defending their professional records against charges of
conspiracy peddling and political bias."

Jesus Christ. Give
me a break. LOL.

"The conference was streamed
by several reporters in the room. A pickup truck parked in the lot outside
by one of the activists in attendance carried a giant inflatable rat wearing
a blond Trump toupee."

LOL. ... Comic relief.
These f--kers are idiots.

"Earlier this week, several
journalists reported on Twitter that they had received suspicious emails
from a woman claiming someone had offered to pay her for making sexual
misconduct allegations against Mueller. The journalists said those offers
had come from SureFire Intelligence, a company NBC News connected to Jacob
Wohl through telephone and domain records. Their claims were later bolstered
by a second woman who came forward with an email offering similar payments
in exchange for smearing Mueller, signed by a SureFire agent. Burkman opened
the news conference by addressing the controversy. "None of this is true,"
Burkman said of the allegations he and Wohl had been involved in a plot.
"There were no offers of payment, there was no wrongdoing, there was no
bribery, there was nothing illegal or untoward or unethical that took place
here," Wohl said."

That right? LOL.

"The special counsel's
office asked the FBI to investigate the matter last week, after learning
of the alleged plot to smear Mueller."

"When Wohl and Burkman
opened the floor to questions, the assembled reporters were unrestrained.
Wohl was asked about his political bias, specifically for his tweets attacking
Mueller, including one where he wrote the special counsel should be sent
to Guantanamo Bay. Wohl said his personal opinion had no effect on his
professional handling of the investigation. Other reporters questioned
20-year-old Wohl's experience in the intelligence gathering business and
why he had lied to reporters days earlier when he denied having any part
in the investigation. Burkman responded, calling Wohl "a child prodigy
who has eclipsed Mozart." At one point, Will Sommer from The Daily Beast
said, "No one is discounting [the woman's] account. We didn't know her
name until 20 minutes ago. We're questioning both you two very un-credible
people."

You think?
LOL.

"NBC News has elected
not to publish the woman's name because she has not gone public, and because
of concerns about Wohl and Burkman's credibility."

You think?
Yet, this matter was referred to the FBI by Mueller, precisely why there
is continued interest.

"As the hour they had
booked was almost up, Burkman announced he would take one more question.
Someone from the back shouted, "Are you both prepared for federal prison?"

"No we are not," Burkman
answered."

Need to be.

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11-9-18

Saudi debacle continues.
The
Washington Post reports:

"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman described slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a dangerous Islamist
days after his disappearance in a phone call with President Trump’s son-in-law
Jared Kushner and national security adviser John Bolton, according to people
familiar with the discussion. In the call, which occurred before the kingdom
publicly acknowledged killing Khashoggi, the crown prince urged Kushner
and Bolton to preserve the U.S.-Saudi alliance and said the journalist
was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group long opposed by Bolton
and other senior Trump officials."

The Saudi Crown Prince
is a liar. Not only that, a disingenuous hypocrite:

"The attempt to criticize
Khashoggi in private stands in contrast to the Saudi government’s later
public statements decrying the journalist’s death as a “terrible mistake”
and a “terrible tragedy.” “The incident that happened is very painful,
for all Saudis,” the crown prince, the kingdom’s de facto leader, said
during a panel discussion last week. “The incident is not justifiable.”
The Saudi ambassador to the United States, Khalid bin Salman, described
Khashoggi last month as a “friend” who dedicated “a great portion of his
life to serve his country.”

Saudis certainly don't
speak with one voice, do they?

"In a statement released
to The Washington Post, Khashoggi’s family called the characterization
of the columnist as dangerous Islamist inaccurate. “Jamal Khashoggi was
not a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He denied such claims repeatedly
over the past several years,” the family said. “Jamal Khashoggi was not
a dangerous person in any way possible. To claim otherwise would be ridiculous.”
A person familiar with the discussion said Bolton did not signal he endorsed
the crown prince’s characterization of Khashoggi during the call."

Imagine that.

"A Saudi official on Wednesday
denied that the crown prince made the allegations, saying “routine calls
do exist from time to time” with the young leader and top U.S. officials,
but “no such commentary was conveyed.”

Someone's lying.
Guess who.

"Saudi Arabia has faced
international condemnation for its shifting accounts of Khashoggi’s Oct.
2 disappearance at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. The kingdom initially
said Khashoggi walked out of the consulate unharmed, then announced Saudi
agents accidentally killed him in a fistfight and more recently said it
had evidence his killing was “premeditated.” Analysts said the crown prince’s
efforts to discredit Khashoggi in private suggested a two-faced attempt
at damage control. “This is character assassination added to premeditated
murder,” said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and scholar at the Brookings
Institution."

Not surprisingly, Trump
and his henchmen are not forthcoming with information:

"The White House declined
to discuss sensitive conversations with the Saudis or to say how many phone
calls the crown prince and Kushner have had since Khashoggi’s disappearance.
The two men have had multiple discussions, according to people familiar
with the matter, but the most recent call with Bolton and Kushner happened
on Oct. 9. Officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive
topic."

Think so? Or, did
they do so to insulate themselves from the wrath of the Trump nazi?

"Khashoggi’s family said
Jamal’s views were much more nuanced than those described by Saudi officials.
“Although he sympathized with certain objectives of the Muslim Brotherhood,
he also sharply disagreed with many of their positions, especially toward
Saudi Arabia,” the family said in its statement. Saudi Arabia severed relations
with Qatar last year, charging among other things it harbored Muslim Brotherhood
“terrorists.” Although the Saudis maintained a cordial relationship with
the Brotherhood for decades after its founding in Egypt as an Islamist
political and social movement, Riyadh declared it a terrorist organization
after the upheavals of the Arab Spring."

Nothing is ever simple,
-- or easy.

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11-9-18

Corporate greed run amok.
NPR reports:

"The pharmaceutical giant
Merck & Co. Inc. is ending a six-year agreement to supply a lifesaving
vaccine for children in West Africa. At the same time, the company has
started sending the vaccine to China, where it will likely be sold for
a much higher price. The vaccine is for a deadly form of diarrhea, called
rotavirus, which kills about 200,000 young children and babies each year.
Merck's decision means it will fall short of its commitment to supply its
rotavirus vaccine, RotaTeq, to four low-income countries in 2018 and 2019,
according to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. By 2020, the company will completely
stop delivering its vaccine."

Unbridled corporate greed:

"In April, Merck's agent
in China received approval to start selling the vaccine there, where the
price per dose will likely be more than 10 times the amount Gavi pays for
the vaccine for low-income countries. As a result of Merck's decision,
more than a half-million children in West Africa may not receive the vaccine
in 2018 and 2019, Gavi told NPR in an email. And more than 2 million may
go without the vaccination in 2020."

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"President Donald Trump's
latest campaign ad featuring an immigrant who was convicted of killing
police officers is being criticized as racist and drawing parallels to
another controversial commercial that seemed to play on the same fears
30 years ago. Luis Bracamontes is a Mexican immigrant who was sentenced
to the death penalty in April after being convicted of killing two California
sheriff's deputies in 2014. Bracamontes' penchant for curse-laden rants
about killing cops got him expelled from the courtroom and earned him a
place in one of Trump's campaign ads in January. Trump's latest ad featuring
Bracamontes uses video of him in court with text overlays that say he “killed
our people!” and claims that “Democrats let him into our country” and “Democrats
let him stay.” That's followed by footage of people who appear to be part
of a migrant caravan pushing down gates, along with another immigrant’s
interview and his alleged history of attempted murder. Text then appears
asking: “Who else would Democrats let in?” The ad offers no evidence for
claims that Democrats let Bracamontes, who was deported twice, into the
country. The ad was released on Oct. 31, just six days before the midterms.
It was also released on the same day that the Trump administration announced
it would be increasing the number of U.S. troops at the southern border
from just over 5,000 to 10,000 or 15,000 to deal with the migrant caravan
Trump has repeatedly claimed qualifies as an invasion."

There is no invasion.
Trump remains no more than a congenital liar in the mold of Adolf Hitler,
Benito Mussolini.

"Kim Fridkin, a political
science professor at Arizona State University who specializes in negative
ads, said Trump's latest offering "is playing to racial fears of 'the other.'"
"He's portraying immigrants as criminals basically, so in that way, I think
it has racial undertones or overtones," Fridkin said. Mo Elleithee, the
executive director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and
Public Service, was more frank. “I think it is one of the most racist ads
we've seen in a long time,” said Elleithee, who worked as a campaign strategist
for Hillary Clinton and was a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee.
“It is preying on people's fear of immigrants, and to the extent that anyone’s
motivated by racism, that clearly taps into that.”

Raw nazism:

"Trump has pinned the
ad to the top of his Twitter timeline, writing: "It is outrageous what
the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican now!"

"Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona,
who has also been critical of Trump, tweeted Thursday that “This is a sickening
ad. Republicans everywhere should denounce it.” Both Elleithee and Fridkin
compared Trump’s ad to the one that featured felon Willie Horton during
the 1988 presidential election and was produced by a group that supported
George H.W. Bush’s bid. At the time, the Horton ad was widely seen as one
of the most controversial political ads in modern American history. “I
think that when people, political scientists, hear the word ‘Willie Horton,’
what they remember is the ad that was trying to illicit race as an issue
and try to play to people's fears of blacks as perpetrators of a crime,”
Fridkin said, adding that she sees this Trump ad as having a similar message
but applying it to immigrants. “I think it is on the same level as that
ad,” she said of the Horton ad."

Nothing ever truly changes
in Nazi America, does it?

CBS News reports:

"Cop-killing illegal immigrant
Luis Bracamontes stars in a web video from January that President Trump
tweeted Thursday. The expletive-laced courtroom footage shows a laughing
Bracamontes admitting he killed two police officers and promising to break
out of jail soon. "Democrats let him into the country," the video says
in all caps. As he says he wishes he had "killed more" cops, "Democrats
let him stay" flashes over the screen. Neither the video nor the president
cite any evidence to support the allegation that Democrats let him into
the U.S. and let him stay. Is the accusation accurate? THE FACTS: No. This
is akin to blaming Republicans for criminals who entered the country illegally
under Presidents Trump or George W. Bush.

"Bracamontes was deported
four times before he killed Sacramento County sheriff's Deputy Danny Oliver
and Placer County sheriff's Detective Michael Davis Jr., according to Sacramento
County Sheriff Scott Jones. There is no evidence that any Democrat
— or anyone, for that matter — allowed Bracamontes to stay."

Trump is a liar.

CBS News reports:

"NBC and Fox News Channel
both said Monday that they will stop airing President Trump's campaign
advertisement that featured an immigrant convicted of murder. CNN had rejected
the same ad, declaring it racist. Fox pulled the ad Sunday "upon further
review," said Marianne Gambelli, president of the network's ad sales department.
Fox did not immediately say how many times it aired on either Fox News
Channel or the Fox Business Network."

"The advertisement aired
on NBC's "Sunday Night Football" and MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and drew a
heated online response. After reviewing the ad, NBC said it recognizes
its insensitive nature."

Why didn't they 'review'
it first?

"A source familiar with
the matter told CBS News the ad was produced by the Trump campaign, with
an ad buy of $1.5 million across TV and digital platforms. The ad includes
footage of Luis Bracamontes, a twice-deported immigrant from Mexico sentenced
to death in California for killing two police officers. It blames Democrats
for allowing him into the country. The ad, however, is not factual. It
is akin to blaming Republicans for criminals who entered the country illegally
under Presidents Trump or George W. Bush. There is no evidence that any
Democrat — or anyone, for that matter — allowed Bracamontes to stay. Democratic
and Republican administrations alike have deported hundreds of thousands
of people a year. Former President Barack Obama focused during his second
term on recent arrivals and people with criminal histories, but Mr. Trump
quickly directed that anyone in the country illegally could be targeted."

Consider the psychotic,
irrational insanity of the following:

"Facebook also announced
Monday that the ad violated its advertising policy. "While the video is
allowed to be posted on Facebook, it cannot receive paid distribution,"
a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. Mr. Trump's campaign manager,
Brad Parscale, tweeted that NBC News, CNN and Facebook had chosen "to stand
with those ILLEGALLY IN THIS COUNTRY." He said the media was trying to
control what you see and think. Parscale made no mention of Fox's decision.
The president's son, Donald Trump Jr., tweeted over the weekend, noting
CNN's refusal to air the advertisement, saying, "I guess they only run
fake news and won't talk about real threats that don't suit their agenda."

There is no threat.

Donny, Jr. is as much
a liar as dear old dad. Chip off the old block.

"CNN said it was made
"abundantly clear" through its coverage that the ad was racist and declined
to air it when the campaign sought to buy airtime."

Can't confuse a Trump
with the truth.

NPR reports:

"With days to go before
the midterm elections, President Trump continues to ratchet up his rhetoric
on immigration. The president's latest target is asylum-seekers, whom he
accuses of exploiting "loopholes" in U.S. immigration laws."

Simply, not true.
The president is a liar.

"In a televised speech
from the White House on Thursday, Trump threatened to close the Southwest
border to asylum-seekers — including the latest group of Central American
migrants making their way through Mexico — unless they present themselves
at official ports of entry. But refugee and asylum experts say his plan
would violate U.S. law. They say the president's remarks about asylum were
riddled with inaccuracies and misleading statements intended to stoke fear
of immigrants and drive the president's supporters to the polls. We'll
focus here on five statements President Trump made Thursday in the Roosevelt
Room."

Trump:
"The current influx, if not halted, threatens to overwhelm our immigration
system and our communities, and poses unacceptable dangers to the entire
nation."

"The total number of migrants
apprehended at the Southwest border was actually down slightly last year,
to about 521,000, and remains far below the kind of apprehension numbers
that were routine in the 1990s and 2000s."

Wouldn't want to confuse
his sick sycophants with the truth. Wake up. The president
is lying.

Trump:
"These policies lead to the release of illegal aliens into our communities
after they've been apprehended. But we're not releasing anymore. Big change,
as of a couple of days ago. We're going to no longer release. We're going
to catch; we're not going to release. They're going to stay with us until
the deportation hearing or the asylum hearing takes place. So we're not
releasing them into the community."

"In fact, under U.S. law,
migrant families who have requested asylum are not considered illegal immigrants.
And they are being released in large numbers up and down the border. In
El Paso, Texas, Ruben Garcia, director of a local shelter called Annunciation
House, told reporter Mallory Falk of member station KRWG the shelter had
received 332 people Thursday released from immigration custody and are
expecting 225 more Friday."

Not only distortion of
reality, but an outright lie by our nazi fuhrer.

Trump:
"Then they never show up, almost. It's like a level of 3 percent. They
never show up for the trial. So by the time their trial comes, they're
gone. Nobody knows where they are."

"Actually, the majority
of asylum-seekers do show up to court. According to the Department of Justice
statistics for the 2016 fiscal year, only about 2 in 5 cases were decided
in absentia."

Once again, Trump's a
liar. Has an agenda highly reminiscent of Hitler's treatment of Jews,
Gypsies, gays, etc., at the beginning of the Third Reich.

Trump:
"This endemic abuse of the asylum system makes a mockery of our immigration
system, displacing legitimate asylum-seekers — and there are legitimate
asylum-seekers — while rewarding those who abuse or defraud our system,
which is almost everybody. Everybody is abusing it."

"Immigration lawyers say
this is a wild exaggeration. It's true that only a fraction of all asylum
claims are actually successful. Last year, immigration courts rejected
more than 60 percent of asylum claims, a number that has been steadily
rising since 2012."

Once again, the president
is a liar. Has no credibility.

Trump:
"Some people call it an invasion. It's like an invasion. ... These are
tough people, in many cases. A lot of young men, strong men."

"The president has claimed
repeatedly, without evidence, that the migrants include dangerous criminals
and "unknown Middle Easterners." But reporters on the ground say the migrants
comprise mainly women and children who are fleeing from violence and extreme
poverty in Central America. Refugee and asylum experts accuse the president
of fearmongering to rally his political base for the midterm elections."

Despite the five criticisms
above, here's the very worst of it, greatest distortion of reality, achingly
blatant lie, most highly reminiscent of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini:

"There's a "tragic irony"
in portraying the asylum-seekers as a marauding army, said Karen Musalo,
director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at U.C. Hastings
College of the Law. "Individuals have come together to walk north in a
caravan because the journey north for asylum-seekers has been so dangerous,"
Musalo said in an interview. "These are very vulnerable individuals, desperately
fleeing violence, who have come together as a group to have the protection
and solidarity of each other."

Wake up.
You've been bamboozled. Hoodwinked by Trump and his fellow nazis.

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"Hours before Election
Day, President Donald Trump on Monday continued to warn, without evidence,
about the prospect of "illegal voting." "All you've got to do is go around,
take a look what's happened over the years and you'll see," Trump told
reporters before departing from Joint Base Andrews for the first of three
campaign rallies Monday. "There are a lot of people ... that try and get
in illegally and actually vote illegally, so we just want to let them know
that there will be prosecution at the highest level."

The president is a liar.
No factual basis for his assertion. There is no widespread voter
fraud. Has not been.

"Trump has repeatedly,
as a candidate and as president, said that voter fraud is a significant
problem. However, experts have repeatedly concluded that voter fraud is
extremely rare. Even the president's own defunct voter fraud commission
uncovered no evidence to back up his claim that millions voted illegally
in the 2016 presidential election, according to an analysis of commission
documents released in August by a former member."

In fact, Republican national
socialists, fascists, nazis have done all they could to suppress voting
rights of those they consider unlikely to vote for GOP candidates.
Doing so through gerrymandering, voter suppression, voter id laws, etc..
Not-so-cleverly, perniciously designed by the nazi element in our formerly
great country to suppress the vote.

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11-9-18

In follow up to the last
edition, more of the same from the King nazi. NBC News reports:

"Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa,
erupted in anger and kicked a man out of an event on Thursday after the
man questioned King's connection to white supremacist ideology and linked
it to the recent Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Kaleb Van Fossen, who was
identified by The Des Moines Register as the questioner, asked King about
his past controversial comments, which prompted a fiery response from the
lawmaker.

"You, Steve King, have
been quoted as saying, 'We can't restore our civilization with other people's
babies.' You and the shooter both share an ideology that is anti-immigration,"
Van Fossen said. King, who is running for re-election, quickly shouted
down Van Fossen. "No! Don't you do that!" King yelled. "Do not associate
me with that shooter. I knew you were an ambusher when you walked in the
room, but there is no basis for that and you get no question and you get
no answer."

Van Fossen certainly took
it to the nazi:

"Van Fossen continued
to press King, asking him what "distinguishes" his past comments with that
of the Pittsburgh suspect, who has expressed anti-Semitic views, and whether
the lawmaker identifies himself as a white supremacist. "No, you’re done!
We don’t play these games here in Iowa," said King, who insisted the protester
be removed. King was speaking at a candidate forum in Des Moines. Van Fossen
is a member of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, which also held
a protest against King outside the event, according to The Des Moines Register."

Resistance.

"King, an anti-immigration
hard-liner, has come under intense scrutiny for his sharp opposition to
diversity in America, which he said is "not a strength." He also praised
Austria's Freedom Party, which was founded by a former Nazi SS officer,
for its anti-immigration platform and endorsed a candidate running for
mayor in Toronto who has espoused white supremacist views."

A nazi.

"Rep. Steve Stivers, an
Ohio Republican and chairman of the House GOP campaign arm, excoriated
King on Tuesday for espousing white supremacist viewpoints online and in
public remarks, saying the lawmaker's behavior is "completely inappropriate"
and "we must stand up against white supremacy and hate in all forms." King
pushed back on the accusation Tuesday in a statement, saying he valued
the country's diversity and "legal immigrants."

A national socialist,
fascist, nazi liar.

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11-9-18

More of the same.
Additional fuel to the fire. CBS News reports:

"Four alleged members
of a white supremacist group were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges
of inciting violence at California political rallies last year, officials
said. The defendants planned and carried out assaults at gatherings in
Huntington Beach, Berkeley and San Bernardino, the U.S. Attorney's Office
in Los Angeles said in a statement. The four participated in hand-to-hand
combat training and then traveled to rallies to attack demonstrators and
others, prosecutors said. Afterward they disseminated photographs and videos
of the violent acts to recruit other members for future events, according
to prosecutors. Attorney information couldn't immediately be found for
Aaron Eason, Robert Rundo, Robert Boman and Tyler Laube. All were arrested
last week and charged with one count each of conspiracy. Rundo, Boman and
Eason were additionally charged with one count of rioting."

Highly reminiscent of
Hitler's Brownshirts.

"Arraignments were scheduled
beginning next week. According to prosecutors, the conspiracy and riots
charges in the indictment carry statutory maximum sentences of five years
in federal prison. Prosecutors said the four are members of the militant
Rise Above Movement, a group described in the indictment as "a combat-ready,
militant group of a new nationalist white supremacy and identity movement."
The indictments come weeks after four other California members of the group
were indicted for allegedly inciting last year's deadly riot in Charlottesville,
Virginia."

These groups present an
exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and
liberties.

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11-9-18

Bought and paid for.
NPR reports:

"For months, farmers from
Mississippi to Minnesota have been waiting for the Environmental Protection
Agency to make up its mind about a controversial weedkiller called dicamba.
Some farmers love the chemical; other farmers, along with some environmentalists,
consider it a menace, because it's prone to drifting in the wind, damaging
nearby crops and wild vegetation. This week, on Halloween evening, the
EPA finally announced its decision. Calling dicamba "a valuable pest control
tool," it gave farmers a green light to keep spraying the chemical on new
varieties of soybeans and cotton that have been genetically modified to
tolerate dicamba. A coalition of environmental groups that had filed a
lawsuit against the EPA's original approval of dicamba blasted the decision
to keep it on the market. Paul Achitoff from Earthjustice said in a statement
that "EPA's disregard of both the law and the welfare of ... species at
risk of extinction is unconscionable."

Surprised? Why?
Money comes first. Before all. Principle? What's that?
Monsanto will certainly line its pockets courtesy of the Trump nazi and
his henchmen.

"Meanwhile, a federal
court still has not ruled on the lawsuit that seeks to overturn the EPA's
original approval of dicamba."

Be interesting to see
what, if anything, comes of that. Forget? The judiciary is
now run and owned by Republican national socialists. Republicans now sit
en masse on the courts legislating their perverse ideological and religious
views, lining the pockets of their corporate masters.

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11-9-18

Think Trump, despite close
family ties, is not anti-Semitic? The Washington Post reports:

"President Trump suggested
Wednesday that there might be truth to an unfounded conspiracy theory that
philanthropist and Democratic megadonor George Soros is funding a caravan
of Central American migrants, telling reporters that he “wouldn’t be surprised”
if that is the case. As he left the White House, Trump was asked whether
he thinks somebody is funding the migrant caravan that is slowly making
its way through Mexico toward the U.S. border. “I wouldn’t be surprised,
yeah. I wouldn’t be surprised,” Trump responded. Asked whether the funder
could be Soros, Trump said: “I don’t know who, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
A lot of people say yes.”

Trump is a congenital
liar. Incapable of telling the truth.

"Trump’s comments came
in the wake of Soros being targeted with a pipe bomb last week and the
fatal shootings this weekend at Pittsburgh synagogue by a suspect who posted
frequently about the migrant caravan. The White House did not immediately
respond Thursday to a question about what evidence Trump has that points
to the possibility that Soros, a wealthy Jewish donor, has funded a caravan
that originated in Honduras."

Has none. -- That
simple. Congenital liar.

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"A federal judge on Friday
denied President Trump’s request to stay a lawsuit alleging he is in violation
of the Constitution by doing business with foreign governments, a decision
that paves the way for plaintiffs to seek information from his business
as it relates to his D.C. hotel. U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte
in Greenbelt, Md., denied the Justice Department’s request that he pause
the case in order to allow a higher court to intervene. And he sharply
questioned the president’s position that his business does not improperly
accept gifts or payments — called emoluments — as defined by the Constitution.
By Trump’s analysis, Messitte wrote, the term emoluments is the subject
of such “substantial grounds of disagreement” that payments his business
received from foreign governments could not qualify. The judge did not
agree: “The Court finds this a dubious proposition.” Messitte ordered the
plaintiffs, the attorneys general for D.C. and Maryland, to submit a schedule
for discovery — the process of producing evidence for the case — within
20 days. That decision is subject to appeal. The judge previously limited
discovery to information related to the president’s D.C. hotel."

Certainly, a step in the
right direction. Emoluments Clause is quite clear.

The Washington Post
reports:

"Ivanka Trump-branded
semiconductors and voting machines? In China? That’s an odd, if remote,
possibility after Chinese trademark regulators awarded preliminary approval
for 16 trademark applications from the president’s daughter and White House
senior adviser, online Chinese government filings show. The approvals by
Beijing on Oct. 13 were notable for their timing, coming just as Chinese
and U.S. officials were seeking to restart trade talks that had collapsed
amid acrimony. They also raised eyebrows for covering a grab-bag of products,
including electoral hardware in a country not exactly known for its elections.
Ethics watchdogs have long warned about the possibility of foreign governments
seeking to curry favor with President Trump through his family’s extensive
business interests, and Ivanka Trump appeared to acknowledge the potential
for conflict in her dual roles as White House official and international
entrepreneur in July, when she shut down her namesake fashion line. But
the recent approvals are a reminder of the Chinese government’s knack for
making uncannily timed decisions when it comes to Trump family businesses
— even if it’s just coincidence, as Chinese experts say."

Here's the problem:

"The October decisions
were the largest batch of approvals for Ivanka Trump since her father entered
the White House, and they came as he was locked in a trade standoff with
China, according to Caroline Zhang of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics
(CREW) in Washington, who first pointed out the updated filings. “Since
she has retained her foreign trademarks, the public will continue to have
to ask whether President Trump has made foreign policy decisions in the
interest of his and his family’s businesses,” Zhang wrote."

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11-9-18

In yet another judicial
blow to the Trump nazi, CBS News reports:

"A federal judge has denied
a U.S. government motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands
of immigrant children by attorneys who say the kids have unconstitutionally
been denied the ability to challenge their detention or obtain counsel.
Judge Dolly Gee, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
California, said Friday she will grant class status for children in the
case, Lucas R. v. Alex Azar. The lawsuit was filed in June, initially
on behalf of seven children who were separated from relatives after entering
the United States. Attorneys said the government has violated the children's
constitutional right to due process."

Indeed, it has.

"In a phone call with
CBS News, attorney Leecia Welch, who is senior director for legal advocacy
and child welfare at the National Center for Youth Law, lauded the decision.
"It's a great ruling, we're really excited about it," Welch said. The class
of plaintiffs in the case could ultimately include all of the approximately
13,000 unaccompanied children under federal supervision, Welch said."

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11-9-18

Those doing the work don't
share in the wealth. The Washington Post reports:

"The big news Friday is
that wages are growing above 3 percent for the first time since 2009. It’s
a significant milestone after years of sluggish wage growth, and most economists
say workers will probably see strong gains for the foreseeable future.
The good news comes with two caveats. The first is the 3.1 percent annual
wage growth figure the Labor Department reported Friday is slightly inflated
because of some hurricane effects. Remember the really bad hurricanes in
the fall of 2017? Those ended up depressing wages in October 2017, so when
the Labor Department calculated the year over year change for wages this
October, it looked like a bigger jump than normal because last year’s number
was low. That said, economists still think we’re likely to see more months
of three-plus wage growth, so this isn’t a total blip. The second caveat
is that while wage growth is getting better, it’s still well below the
norm and coming at a time when U.S. companies are earning record profits."

"In the 1990s dot-com
boom wage growth was regularly at 3.5 percent to 4 percent a month. Those
numbers seem dreamy today. (And after adjusting for rising costs, workers
are getting only about a 0.8 percent rise based on Friday’s numbers). Corporate
profits, meanwhile, are at an all-time high, according to Howard Silverblatt
of S&P Dow Jones Indices and government data. Corporate tax cuts have
enabled companies to boost profitability, many analysts and executives
say. But companies are spending a lot of their extra cash on stock buybacks
and dividends, leaving only a little extra for workers."

Imagine that. Couldn't
be, could it? Unbridled greed.

"This is part of a long-term
trend. Workers no longer get the same “piece of the pie” as they did from
the 1950s up to the 1990s. Labor’s share of business income has declined
steadily since 2001 and fell sharply during the Great Recession. While
corporate profits have rebounded since then and hit new highs, labor’s
share isn’t even back to where it was pre-crisis, according to Labor Department
data. The bottom line is workers are seeing a nine-year high in wages at
a time when corporate profits are off the charts. The latest data on this
phenomenon is from the quarter that just ended in September, and it shows
more of the same: Workers are still getting a small share of income. “Never
have corporate profits outgrown employee compensation so clearly and for
so long,” noted a recent Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis blog post."

Above quotes are courtesy
of a most gifted, insightful writer, Heather Long.

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11-9-18

Trump and his fellow Republican
nazis lose another one. The Washington Post reports:

"Georgia must change its
procedures to make it easier for some people flagged under the state’s
restrictive “exact match” law to vote, a federal judge ruled Friday, dealing
a blow to Republican gubernatorial candidate and Secretary of State Brian
Kemp."

Doesn't your heart bleed?

"The “exact match” law
flags voter registrations that are found to have discrepancies, such as
a dropped hyphen, with other official identifications. Potential voters
are allowed to settle the discrepancy by providing proof of identity. But
the state’s procedures under Kemp, whose office oversees elections, stipulated
that those who had been flagged as potential noncitizens be cleared first
by a deputy registrar when seeking to vote. In October, a coalition of
civil rights groups sued him."

For damned good reason.
Deliberate abrogation of the right to vote.

"U.S. District Judge Eleanor
L. Ross ruled Friday that the procedures were likely to result in the violation
of voting rights for a large group of people and needed to be halted immediately.
She said Kemp’s restrictions raised “grave concerns for the Court about
the differential treatment inflicted on a group of individuals who are
predominantly minorities." The preliminary injunction she issued required
the state to change its procedures immediately to allow those flagged,
some 3,100 individuals, to prove their citizenship more easily, with a
U.S. passport or similar documentation, and only to a poll manager. It
also signaled that the coalition of civil rights groups that brought the
case against Kemp would probably succeed should the lawsuit continue. “With
respect to Tuesday’s election, we deem this a total victory in our fight
against Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s exact match scheme,” said Kristen
Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law. “Our goal in filing this lawsuit was to ensure
that no eligible voter was unfairly denied the right to vote because of
this discriminatory voter suppression effort." Kemp was also ordered to
issue a news release explaining how those flagged for potential citizenship
issues could still vote by proving their citizenship, as well as offering
a phone number for them to call with any questions."

No less than treason perpetrated
by Republican fascists, national socialists, nazis.

"The American Civil Liberties
Union announced Friday that another court had sided against Kemp in a different
voting rights case. It said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
had denied his request to block a court order that required him to exercise
due process before rejecting ballots for handwriting issues. The state
attorney general’s office did not say whether it planned to appeal the
ruling, with spokeswoman Katie Byrd declining to comment."

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11-9-18

Trump and his fellow henchmen
lose yet another one. The Washington Post reports:

"The Supreme Court refused
Friday to delay an upcoming trial in which a number of states and civil
rights organizations allege there was an improper political motive in Commerce
Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020
Census. The trial is scheduled to begin Monday in New York. Justices Clarence
Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch said they would have granted
the Trump administration’s request to delay the trial. It is unclear how
the other six voted — including new Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh — because
justices are not required to publish their votes in such procedures. But
at least five of the six were unwilling to block the trial."

Amazing, isn't it?

"Later Friday night, the
justices refused a Trump administration request to halt a novel lawsuit
filed by young Americans that attempts to force the federal government
to take action on climate change. Thomas and Gorsuch would have granted
the request, but the court said the administration should make its appeal
to a lower court first. In the Commerce Department case, the administration
has been to the high court several times in an attempt to keep the challengers
from questioning Ross and other administration officials about their motivations
in adding the question. Department of Justice lawyers finally asked the
court to delay the proceedings. Challengers to the citizenship question
cheered the court’s refusal to do so. “DOJ has tried every trick in the
book (and then some) to block this case — and failed every time,” Amy Spitalnick,
a spokeswoman for New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood (D), said
in a statement. “You really have to wonder what they’re trying to hide.”

Indeed. Should Democrats
retake the House, think they won't launch an investigation into this and
many other highly questionable matters?

"Democratic lawmakers
and immigrant rights groups have blasted the idea of adding the citizenship
question. They contend that it will make immigrants and their families
less likely to fill out the form, leading to a more costly and less accurate
census."

No question. Republican
national socialists too clueless to understand? ... Or, is it the
fact they're too goddamned stupid to give a shit? That is, are these
GOP fascists more concerned with removing the undocumented from this country
than ensuring an accurate census count?

"Six former census directors
and a Census Bureau internal analyst also have said the question would
harm the count. That, in turn, could cost states with large immigrant populations
representation in Congress and federal funds distributed on the basis of
population."

-- One of the reasons
why a census is conducted every ten years.

"In an unsigned opinion
Oct. 22, the Supreme Court blocked a deposition of Ross authorized by lower
federal courts in New York. But it said other discovery could go forward,
including the deposition of a top Justice Department official. There are
six legal challenges to the inclusion of a question about a census respondent’s
citizenship. The states and organizations that brought the lawsuits say
probing the intentions of officials is crucial. Ross has “offered shifting
and inaccurate explanations in his decisional memo and in testimony before
Congress” as well as in new documents filed in the case, said a brief filed
by the New York Immigration Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union
and others. Ross first said he added the citizenship question at the behest
of the Justice Department, which said it was needed to help enforce voting
rights. But emails showed that he had been pushing for the inclusion of
the citizenship question earlier than that, and the groups and states contend
that the Justice Department request was a pretext."

Once again, the government
is lying.

"In a document filed in
response to questions sent by Underwood, Ross acknowledged that he had
discussed the issue with former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon and
a Republican secretary of state who has been a leader in anti-immigration
efforts."

Imagine that. Couldn't
be, could it?

"In the document, Ross
said he recalled Bannon calling him in spring 2017 to ask whether Ross
would speak to Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach about ideas for a
possible citizenship question on the census. That appears to contradict
Ross’s testimony to Congress this year. When asked at a hearing March 20
by Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) whether the president or anyone in the White
House had discussed the citizenship question with him, Ross said, “I am
not aware of any such.”

Lying under oath?

"The trial is scheduled
to start next week before U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in New York.
He has denied the Trump administration’s motions for delay, and has been
backed up by panels of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. In
asking the Supreme Court for a delay, Francisco said “the most efficient
path forward is to stay the trial and resolve the question whether the
district court must confine its review of the Secretary’s decision to the
administrative record, while leaving sufficient time for the district court
to conduct its review followed by prompt appellate review.” Otherwise,
Francisco said, there will be a full trial that includes “whether the Secretary
harbored secret racial animus in reinstating a citizenship question to
the decennial census.” If the judge made such a finding, Francisco said,
“that harm would not be fully (or even largely) remedied if [the Supreme
Court] subsequently confined the district court’s review to the administrative
record.”

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11-9-18

Another judicial loss
for Trump. The Washington Post reports:

"The Supreme Court on
Friday night refused to halt a novel lawsuit filed by young Americans that
attempts to force the federal government to take action on climate change,
turning down a request from the Trump administration to stop it before
trial. The suit, filed in 2015 by 21 young people who argue that the failure
of government leaders to combat climate change violates their constitutional
right to a clean environment, is before a federal judge in Oregon. It had
been delayed while the Supreme Court considered the emergency request from
the government. Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch would have
stopped the suit. The other justices did not indicate how they voted on
the government’s request."

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"The Trump administration
is rolling back a child labor rule for thousands of teenagers working in
nursing homes and hospitals, eliciting a backlash from worker safety advocates.
The regulation targeted by the Labor Department, which was first implemented
by the Obama administration, prohibits 16- and 17-year-olds from independently
operating power-driven patient lifts, which are commonly used in nursing
homes and hospitals to move patients with mobility challenges. The administration
took its first formal step toward undoing the regulation in late September,
releasing a proposed rollback that cites an employer survey and letters
from industry groups as evidence that the regulation is hurting job opportunities
for young people in a field already facing major labor shortages."

Far more important issue
at stake:

"But worker safety advocates
and several Congressional Democrats contend that the Labor Department is
relying on flimsy evidence, which they say undermines the legal basis for
the department’s deregulatory push. They say that the some of the administration’s
justifications for the plan — revealed through a public records request
and obtained by NBC News — do not support the administration’s own arguments.
And they warn that the rollback will endanger young workers in an industry
that already has a high injury rate, pointing to government research concluding
that many 16- and 17-year olds “cannot safely operate power-driven hoists
to lift and transfer patients by themselves.”

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11-9-18

Delusionally believe racism
and bigotry aren't alive and well in Nazi America? That Trump's not
at the heart and center of it? Wake up. CBS News reports:

"Pence spoke before Mr.
Trump, as sort of a warm-up act for the president, amping up the crowd
by discussing administration accomplishments. "I'm here today because I
stand with President Trump," Pence said. "We're here because President
Trump and I stand shoulder to shoulder with the next great senator of Indiana,
Mike Braun." He added that "the time has come to vote 'no' on Joe," referring
to Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly. Mr. Trump also attacked Donnelly, resurrecting
a moniker he had given the senator in earlier rallies: "Sleepin' Joe."
"It's no surprise Joe Donnelly is holding a rally this weekend with Barack
H. Obama," Mr. Trump said, writing out with his fingers Mr. Obama's middle
initial, which stands for "Hussein." Mr. Trump was the chief promoter of
the birther conspiracy theory, which posited that Mr. Obama was not born
in the United States."

Nothing ever changes with
a racist nazi who is bigoted against not only blacks and latinos, but those
from the Middle East as well.

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"The total price of President
Trump’s military deployment to the border, including the cost of National
Guard forces that have been there since April, could climb well above $200
million by the end of 2018 and grow significantly if the deployments continue
into next year, according to analyst estimates and Pentagon figures. The
deployment of as many as 15,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border — potentially
equal in size to the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan — occurs as the
budgetary largesse the military has enjoyed since Trump took office looks
set to come to an end."

Total waste of taxpayer
dollars for a non-threat at the border. Trump nazi is doing this
to placate his sick sycophants, ensure their support in the midterm election.

"Although the costs of
the border deployments will be a tiny slice of a $716 billion annual defense
budget, they arrive as the Trump administration is calling on the Pentagon
to cut unnecessary expenditures. The White House recently ordered the Pentagon
to slash next year’s budget for the military by about $33 billion in response
to the largest increase in the federal deficit in six years."

Readers are reminded the
deficit ballooned due to Trump's recent unfunded tax cut, -- most of which
went to the top of the food chain.

"Veterans and Democratic
lawmakers have complained that Trump is wasting military dollars in a politically
motivated stunt ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, at a time when the
Pentagon budget is under pressure."

Exactly, right.
No question. A traitorous act.

“Instead of working in
a bipartisan manner to make comprehensive, common-sense, and humane reforms
to our immigration system, the President continues to turn to politically-motivated
fear mongering and uses [Department of Defense] resources and personnel
as a means to drive his troubling anti-immigration agenda,” more than 100
House Democrats wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Nov.
1. Retired Gen. Martin Dempsey, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, described the deployment as “wasteful” in a message on Twitter and
said Marines and soldiers were already overstretched."

That's right. Goddamned
disgrace.

"Administration officials
have defended the deployment. Mattis said this week that the military doesn’t
do stunts. The commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Kevin McAleenan,
argued that the deployment is necessary to “effectively and safely” handle
the possible arrival of as many as 7,000 migrants walking toward the border
in caravans from Central America."

Horse shit. The
numbers have already dwindled to half that. They're still some 900
miles away. There is no threat. Most of these people are women
and children seeking asylum from violence, gang activity, grinding poverty.
The president and his henchmen are liars.

"But military planning
documents, dated Oct. 27 and published by Newsweek, predicted that only
20 percent of the migrants, or about 1,400 at the higher end of estimates,
were likely to complete the journey to the border, raising questions about
the size of the deployment."

Political stunt by our
nazi fuhrer, -- fearing Republicans are going to lose the House.

“The military has a lot
of things that it needs to be doing these days,” said Susanna Blume, a
former Pentagon official and senior fellow at the Center for a New American
Security. “Looking at estimates of the size of the caravan, you could ask
the question as to whether this is the most appropriate use of U.S. active-duty
forces.”

No kidding.

"The cost of the National
Guard deployment from April 10 through Sept. 30 amounted to $103 million,
according to Pentagon figures. The Defense Department expects the Guard
deployment to cost an additional $308 million through the end of next September,
including the last quarter of 2018, so long as the operations continue
at pace.

"Travis Sharp, a research
fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budget Assessments, estimated that
the cost of deploying 8,000 active-duty troops through mid-December in
addition to the Guard would amount to $40 million to $50 million. Should
the administration deploy 15,000 active-duty troops, as Trump suggested,
the estimated cost would rise to as much as $110 million, Sharp said."

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11-9-18

Even in an environment
where discipline is ramrod stiff, iron fisted, there are occasionally serious
lapses in cadet judgment. NBC News reports:

"An Air Force falcon injured
at West Point during a prank Saturday before the annual rivalry football
game between the service academies is back home and showing signs of improvement.
The 22-year-old bird named Aurora "was able to fly around in her pen" on
Sunday, said Air Force Academy spokesperson Lt. Col. Tracy A. Bunko. The
development is "an extremely good sign," Bunko said, adding that the academy
is "grateful for the outpouring of support and optimistic for Aurora's
recovery." The falcon will continue to be evaluated and will get antibiotics
to prevent infection, Bunko said."

Quite an embarrassment
to the Army:

"Army officials at West
Point apologized Sunday for the injuries to the falcon and promised a full
investigation. "We are taking this situation very seriously, and this occurrence
does not reflect the Army or USMA core values of dignity and respect,"
the academy said in a statement."

Here's what happened:

"Sam Dollas, Air Force's
falconry team adviser, told The New York Times on Sunday that two West
Point cadets took the birds, threw sweaters over them and stuffed them
into dog crates. Dollas said the cadets turned over the birds Saturday
morning, with Aurora's wings bloodied — likely from thrashing inside the
crate. "I think they had them for a couple hours and then they realized
it was a bad mistake," Dollar told the newspaper. "When Aurora started
thrashing around in the crate, they decided that wasn't a good thing."

"Aurora is the Air Force
Academy's official and oldest mascot. On the school's falconry page, the
bird is described as a white phase gyrfalcon, which is a "falcon species
that is extremely rare in the wild and whose beauty will take your breath
away." "Unless you are federally licensed, you can't even touch them,"
Dollas said, adding the Air Force cadets who work with the birds spend
two months in training and are tested before they can handle them. Three
percent of all falcons are gyrfalcons, and 1 percent of those are white,
according to the website. The school acquired Aurora 22 years ago as a
gift from the association of graduates."

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11-9-18

Yet another judicial blow
to the Trump nazi and his corporate cronies. NPR reports:

"The Supreme Court has
rejected telecom companies' attempts to quash a lower court's decision
that upheld net neutrality rules set during the Obama administration. AT&T
and other telecoms had asked the high court to void the ruling; the Federal
Communications Commission repealed net neutrality last year. The FCC itself
also was in favor of voiding the decision that upheld its 2015-era rules,
according to Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat on the commission. "It wasn't
enough for this FCC to roll back #NetNeutrality," Rosenworcel said in a
tweet. "It actually petitioned the Supreme Court to erase history and wipe
out an earlier court decision upholding open internet policies. But today
the Supreme Court refused to do so."

Fascinating, isn't it?

"The legal moves reflected
a desire by conservatives and industry players to cement the FCC's repeal
of net neutrality rules, which were designed to restrict Internet service
providers' ability to manipulate loading speeds for specific websites or
apps."

Unbridled corporate greed.
Further proof positive there is no such thing as a 'free' market.
Clearly, the market is owned and manipulated by those with the financial
wherewithal to do so.

Here's where it gets most
interesting:

"The rejection came after
two conservative justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett
Kavanaugh — "took no part in the consideration or decision of these petitions,"
the court announced on Monday. With those justices removing themselves
from the process, Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch
were outnumbered. The court's notice says the three justices wanted to
"grant the petitions, vacate the judgment of the United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and remand to that court
with instructions to dismiss the cases as moot." As for why Roberts and
Kavanaugh recused themselves, Amy Howe of SCOTUSBlog reports:"The court's newest justice,
Brett Kavanaugh, was expected to recuse himself from voting on the petitions
because he had participated in the cases while on the D.C. Circuit, and
he did. But Chief Justice John Roberts also recused himself – presumably
(although there is no way to know for sure) because he owns stock in one
of the companies challenging the rules."

Stunning, isn't it, justices
are not required to disclose this information?

"Several of the plaintiffs
in the case said the rejection wasn't surprising, given that the FCC has
already repealed net neutrality. "Today's decision is not an indication
of the Court's views on the merits but simply reflects the fact that there
was nothing left for the Court to rule on," the Internet and Television
Association said. Still, the high court's rejection preserves the appeals
court's decision as a possible precedent and makes it even more likely
that the issue will resurface if the FCC shifts its makeup — something
that would happen if Democrats are able to win back the White House in
2020. The FCC's repeal of net neutrality is also the subject of separate
legal battles, after it was challenged by tech companies and advocacy groups,
in addition to more than 20 U.S. states."

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11-9-18

U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Brett Kavanaugh was certainly roughed up during his recent confirmation
process. Deservedly, so. Nowhere near enough, however.
Apparently, the fascist bastard is nonetheless still smarting from the
verbal trashing he endured. So much so, he's apparently doing all
he can to appear less national socialist, fascist, nazi than he truly is.
The
Washington Post reports:

"The Supreme Court spent
a gruesome hour Tuesday debating a constitutional way to execute a Missouri
man who has a rare medical condition, with the likely decider, new Justice
Brett M. Kavanaugh, joining the court’s liberals with tough questions for
the state."

Imagine that. This
fascist son of a bitch is no progressive. No liberal. No open-minded
independent. Remains what he is, a national socialist.

"Modern and ancient execution
methods — a firing squad, electrocution, hanging, lethal gas, being burned
at the stake — all made appearances during the court’s sober assessment
of ways to kill Russell Bucklew without violating the Constitution’s ban
on cruel and unusual punishment. Missouri plans to use an injection of
a single drug, pentobarbital, to carry out the long-delayed execution of
Bucklew. But he suffers from a congenital and rare disease called cavernous
hemangioma. It causes blood-filled tumors to grow in his head, neck and
throat, which his lawyers say could rupture during the state’s lethal injection
process. The result, they contend, would be that he could choke to death
on his own blood."

Why would a nazi give
a crap about any undue suffering endured by a convicted murderer?
His fellow Republican fascists on the Court certainly couldn't care less.
In fact, for decades Republican nazis have delusionally viewed capital
punishment as justice. Not revenge.

Here's what's so interesting
about this case:

"The state’s lawyers say
that Bucklew cannot prove his condition would cause him an abnormal amount
of suffering, and that his legal fight is a ploy to further delay his punishment
and open a new line of legal challenges."

Can these lawyers prove
what Bucklew is claiming is not the truth? LOL.

"Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
was a member of the majority last spring. He has been replaced by Kavanaugh,
who is considered more conservative, but who was never called upon to rule
on an execution as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit."

Fascinating, isn't it?
Gets better. Get this:

"Kavanaugh directed all
of his questions to Missouri State Solicitor D. John Sauer, pressing him
on the outer bounds of the state’s arguments. “Are you saying even if the
method creates gruesome and brutal pain you can still do it because there’s
no alternative?” Kavanaugh asked. Sauer replied that under the court’s
previous rulings, Bucklew would have to come up with an alternative manner
of execution acceptable to the state. Kavanaugh pressed: “Is that a yes?”
Sauer replied: “Yes, it is, your honor.”

Jesus Christ. LOL.
Sauer clearly doesn't live on the same planet as the rest of us.

"Later, Kavanaugh asked
whether the state had planned to make any special accommodations for Bucklew’s
condition, such as whether he would be lying supine on a gurney, or with
his head elevated. “Your opposing counsel said, even if everything goes
according to plan, there will still be significant suffering. Can you respond
to that?” Kavanaugh asked. “I absolutely, absolutely disagree with that,”
Sauer said. The court’s attention to such details about the execution was
warranted because of the specific nature of Bucklew’s case. He is not contesting
his guilt or his sentence of death."

No question, this piece
of human excrement is just that:

"In 1996, Bucklew, now
50, stalked his former girlfriend Stephanie Ray to another man’s trailer.
He shot and killed the man, Michael Sanders, tried to shoot Ray’s fleeing
child and then captured Ray. He handcuffed and raped her, then wounded
a police officer in a subsequent gunfight. Bucklew later escaped from jail
and attacked Ray’s mother with a hammer before he was recaptured."

Question to be asked here
is quite simple. Does the state wish to stoop to the level of this
piece of human excrement?

"He also is not challenging
the constitutionality of the death penalty, or even of Missouri’s lethal
injection procedure. His claim is that applied to his specific condition,
the protocol would result in the kind of tortured death the Constitution
forbids."

Of course, most of you
Republican nazis out there couldn't care less whether or not this son of
a bitch is tortured. In fact, strongly suspect many of you would
revel in it.

"A divided court has upheld
lethal injection against a series of challenges. And it has indicated that
an inmate who makes a specific challenge specific to his condition must
propose an alternative manner of execution. Justice Sonia Sotomayor has
been the court’s most outspoken critic of that decision, and said Tuesday
that her colleagues had “made up” that requirement without constitutional
justification. Nonetheless, she tried to narrow the impact of ruling for
Bucklew. It “is not going to abolish the death penalty with respect to
everybody,” she said. “It’s going to tell the state: If you have an individual
with a unique circumstance in which a method of execution is going to cause
that person excruciating pain, cruel and unusual pain, you better find
a different way.”

Can't have that, can we?
After all, the nazi element in our formerly great country revels in revenge.
Fervently embraces vengeance. Forget?

"Justice Stephen G. Breyer
pressed Kavanaugh’s point. He said all would agree that burning someone
at the stake would violate the Constitution, so why wouldn’t an inmate
be able to challenge a method of death that had the same physical sensation
for the condemned?"

Indeed.

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11-9-18

Trump is again demonstrating
his racist ideology. NPR reports:

"The Department of Justice
has once again petitioned the Supreme Court to intervene in pending cases
over the future of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the
Obama-era program that protects immigrants who were brought to the U.S.
illegally as children. The program is keeping about 700,000 young people
from being deported, NPR's Joel Rose notes. At the moment, DACA is accepting
renewals but not new applicants. If the program is ended, currently protected
individuals could be deported, though it's not clear how quickly that might
happen. More than a year ago, the Trump administration announced it was
ending the program. Multiple judges have blocked that change, and three
cases have worked their way to the federal appellate level. But the Trump
administration is asking the Supreme Court to skip ahead in the process
— and step in before the lower courts are finished."

Trump is certainly in
a rush, determined to keep his equally sick sycophants under his thumb,
-- and happy.

"Meanwhile, it's worth
noting that the status of DACA recipients also could be resolved through
an act of Congress — but in recent years, Congress has had a notoriously
difficult time taking action on immigration issues."

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11-9-18

As of January, the House
will finally do what the Founders intended it to do. That is, provide
congressional investigative oversight of the president and his regime.
A most unhappy situation that will continue until either the end of Trump's
term, -- or Mueller's pending report that may very well end it for him.

Either way, we're in for
rough times. Tough times. An unsustainable status quo.
Quickly deteriorating. Certainly, don't look forward to what's coming
as our formerly great country continues to decline under this insane fascist
abomination in the Oval Office. Intend to continue exposing him for
whom and what he is no matter what.

NPR reports:

"In an extraordinarily
combative news conference Wednesday after voters delivered him a rebuke
by giving control of the House to Democrats, President Trump went after
Republicans, Democrats and the media. He mocked Republican candidates who
distanced themselves from him, chided a reporter for asking a "racist question,"
and walked away from the lectern at one point, as an aide tried to wrest
a microphone out of a reporter's hands. Trump said that if Democrats try
to use their majority to issue subpoenas, it would be a "war-like posture."

Has he lost his mind?
Delusionally, believe he has the temperament required for the job?

"He said that he could
work with Democrats on issues such as infrastructure and health care, but
that if they conduct investigations into his administration, "then we're
going to do the same thing, then government comes to a halt and I blame
them."

This man is, and remains,
unfit for the presidency. This is a democratic republic. Has
three co-equal federal branches of government. Clearly, Trump does
not understand this. Delusionally, believes he's nazi fuhrer.

"He named checked several
GOP candidates who lost Tuesday. He said that Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, "gave
me no love, and she lost. Too bad, sorry about that Mia." He said Barbara
Comstock, who lost her suburban Virginia district, "didn't want to have
any embrace."

Think this man's not nuts?
Out of his mind?

"Trump said Tuesday's
results were "very close to a complete victory," despite Republicans losing
control of the House. The GOP did add to its majority in the Senate."

This man is delusional.
There is no 'complete victory.' Nowhere near. Quite the opposite.
The House in January will begin to execute one of its constitutional duties,
-- investigative oversight of the Trump Administration. Republicans,
when they held the House, deliberately failed to execute this constitutional
function as intended by the Founders. Instead, treasonously protected
their fuhrer. Placed party ahead of country.

Should the House during
its investigation of Trump discover any impeachable malfeasance, think
it won't impeach? Matters not whether the Senate ultimately convicts
and removes him from office. Would wind up being a useless, dysfunctional
lame duck for the rest of his term. The pressure to resign would
be enormous.

Should Mueller release
his final report containing any criminal malfeasance of Trump and/or his
regime, the pressure on the Senate to convict would be overwhelming.
... Just as it was decades ago during the Nixon Watergate fiasco.
Never got that far. Didn't have to. The Nixon nazi resigned
in disgrace. Was then pardoned by the successor he nominated to replace
Spiro Agnew. Yet, another Republican felon. No matter what,
if this latest fiasco is not resolved quickly, would ultimately tear this
country apart.

Think this man isn't insane?
Get this:

"Of Pelosi, who with her
party capturing the majority of seats Tuesday stands to become the next
speaker of the House, Trump tweeted that she "deserves to be chosen Speaker
of the House by Democrats," that "she has earned this great honor," and
even suggested some Republicans could vote for her, if Democrats "give
her a hard time."

"In
all fairness, Nancy Pelosi deserves to be chosen Speaker of the House by
the Democrats. If they give her a hard time, perhaps we will add some Republican
votes. She has earned this great honor! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2018"

Jesus Christ. He's
not fit. Remains an embarrassment to himself and the country.

"Trump again denounced
special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into ties between Trump's
2016 campaign and the Russian government, claiming he could have shut it
down. Trump said he "could fire everybody right now, but I don't want to
stop it because politically I don't like stopping it." Trump called the
investigation "a disgrace," saying it "should never have been started,
because there is no crime."

Insane. Non-sequitur.

"Trump has frequently
been combative with reporters, and painted the news media as "enemies of
the people," but Wednesday's press conference raised the level of his hostility.
He called CNN's Jim Acosta, with whom he has frequently spared, "a rude,
terrible person." And when PBS Newshour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor
asked him if he thought his rhetoric emboldened white nationalists he called
it "such a racist question." "I love our country," he said, "you have nationalists,
you have globalists," adding "I also love the world." He called himself
"a great moral leader," and in answer to another question said he has never
used racist remarks."

This man is a sick, congenital
liar.

Gets worse:

"If
the Democrats think they are going to waste Taxpayer Money investigating
us at the House level, then we will likewise be forced to consider investigating
them for all of the leaks of Classified Information, and much else, at
the Senate level. Two can play that game! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2018

"Democrats have promised
to hold oversight hearings on the Trump administration when they take control
in January. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who is set to become chairman
of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Wednesday that
he intends to: "shine a light on waste, fraud, and abuse in the Trump Administration.
I want to probe senior Administration officials across the government who
have abused their positions of power and wasted taxpayer money, as well
as President Trump's decisions to act in his own financial self-interest
rather than the best interests of the American people."

Certainly, a constitutional
function of Congress as wisely intended by the Founders.

"Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., also issued a warning for Democrats on Wednesday
morning. They must think carefully about whether to proceed with a "presidential
harassment" strategy that exploits their new majority in the House to afflict
Trump, he said."

Time for ole Mitch "The
Bitch" to do the right thing, resign in disgrace. Been in office
way too long. Oversight is a constitutional duty of Congress.
Mitch and his fellow nazis in the Senate have certainly and intentionally
failed to do theirs. To protect their fuhrer.

The first shoe has dropped.
Hard.
The
Washington Post reports:

"Attorney General Jeff
Sessions resigned on Wednesday at President Trump’s request, ending the
tenure of a beleaguered loyalist whose relationship with the president
was ruined when Sessions recused himself from control of the investigation
of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign."

One of the few things
Sessions did right during his tenure. For that, he gets fired.
LOL.

"In a letter to Trump,
Sessions wrote he had been “honored to serve as Attorney General” and had
“worked to implement the law enforcement agenda based on the rule of law
that formed a central part of your campaign for the presidency.” Trump
tweeted that Sessions would be replaced on an acting basis by Matthew G.
Whitaker, who had been serving as Sessions’s chief of staff."

Whitaker had earlier entertained
thoughts of defunding the Mueller probe.

“We thank Attorney General
Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well!” Trump tweeted. “A permanent
replacement will be nominated at a later date.”

Here's the problem:

"A Justice Department
official said Whitaker would assume authority over the special counsel
probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — though
his role could be reviewed by ethics officials. Because Sessions was recused,
the special counsel probe had been overseen by Deputy Attorney General
Rod J. Rosenstein, who also has had strained relations with Trump, but
is considered safe in his position for the moment. A legal commentator
before he came into the Justice Department, Whitaker has mused publicly
about how a Sessions replacement might reduce Mueller’s budget “so low
that his investigation grinds to almost a halt.” He also wrote in a September
2017 column that Mueller had “come up to a red line in the Russia 2016
election-meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing,”
after CNN reported that the special counsel could be looking into Trump
and his associates’ financial ties to Russia."

Should the Trump nazi
fire Mueller, would immediately trigger a constitutional crisis.
At a time when our formerly great country is far from stable.

"Mueller is looking into
Trump’s statements seeking to fire Sessions or force his resignation in
an effort to determine whether those acts are part of a pattern of attempted
obstruction of justice, according to people close to the investigation.
Earlier this year, Mueller’s team questioned witnesses about Trump’s private
comments and state of mind in late July and early August of last year,
around the time he belittled his “beleaguered” attorney general on Twitter,
these people said. The questions sought to determine whether the president’s
goal was to oust Sessions so he could replace him with someone who would
take control of the investigation, these people said."

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11-2-18

Insanity? Never
ends. NBC News reports:

"Homeland Security Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen said Thursday that there is no "intention right now to
shoot at people" from a Central American migrant caravan if they cross
the United States border."

"In an interview with
Fox News on Thursday, Nielsen appeared to confirm reports the Trump administration
is considering sending 800 active-duty troops to the southern border."

Posse Commitatus precludes
the military from engaging in law enforcement.

"NBC News reported Thursday
that the Trump administration is drafting an executive action that would
make it exceedingly difficult for Central American migrants seeking asylum
to gain entry, according to three sources familiar with the proposed measures."

If they attempt to cross
at a legal border checkpoint, port of entry, U.S. law allows them to seek
asylum.

"In the interview, Nielsen
was asked whether U.S. personnel would ever open fire if people "force
their way" through. "We do not have any intention right now to shoot at
people. They will be apprehended, however," she said. "But I also take
my officer and agents, their own personal safety, extraordinarily seriously.
They do have the ability of course to defend themselves."

If unarmed, non-violent
migrants are gunned down in cold blood by the jackbooted bastards in the
Border Patrol, it is cold-blooded murder.

"Asked whether officials
would return fire if shot at, she said, "No," before adding, "I think we'd
have to work through that. But I want to make it very clear we will absolutely
not tolerate violence against border patrol in this situation."

Our lunatic nazi fuhrer
needs
to be very, very careful how he handles this. Needs to be very, very
carefully thought out.

"The Associated Press
cited a U.S. official as saying Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected
to sign an order sending some 800 troops to the border, bolstering the
2,000 National Guard forces already there under a previous Pentagon arrangement.
Asked whether she could confirm the 800 figure, Nielsen told Fox News,
"Sure ... We've asked for some air support, for some logistics, some planning,
vehicle barriers, engineering, ways in which I can protect my officers
and agents as well as the ports of entry themselves."

Air support? What
kind of 'air support,' madam? Up to and including fighter jets?

Think this couldn't quickly
escalate to the unthinkable?

"Nielsen said it would
be up to Mattis whether the personnel were armed." "The rules of engagement
for us are the same as they've always been," she said. "For DoD, we're
still in discussions and we're working them out. We're waiting to see what
the caravan's going to do, what numbers are looking like, where they're
headed."

Sound comforting?
... Or, one goddamned idiot trying to lead another?

"President Donald Trump
made immigration a central issue ahead of next month's midterm elections,
and tweeted about the caravan Thursday.

"To
those in the Caravan, turnaround, we are not letting people into the United
States illegally. Go back to your Country and if you want, apply for citizenship
like millions of others are doing! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018"

At a legal border crossing,
port of entry, migrants have a legal right to seek asylum, by U.S. statute.
Aren't we supposedly governed by the rule of law, not men?
Don't like the law? Change it. In a democratic republic, the
president does not get to be dictator.

NPR reports:

"The U.S. military will
be sending 5,000 support troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the Pentagon
announced on Monday. The exact number could be slightly higher or lower,
a Pentagon official told NPR. The official said the deployment is being
done to support the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border
Protection. The uniformed troops will likely be active-duty Army personnel,
with perhaps some members of the Army Reserve and Marines. There are already
2,100 National Guard members deployed to the border.

"President Trump has been
warning against the caravan for weeks. On Monday morning, he tweeted: "Many
Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading
to our Southern Border. Please go back, you will not be admitted into the
United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion
of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!" Because the Posse
Comitatus Act prohibits the U.S. military from performing law enforcement
activities within the United States, these troops will be in support roles
only. They will not have arresting power and won't interact with migrants."

The true threat, most
dire threat, is from the Trump nazi, his abrogation of law and the United
States Constitution.

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11-2-18

Clearly, Trump has lost
his mind. Hypocrisy? Unfathomable. NPR reports:

"The list of prominent
people, eight and counting, who were sent suspicious packages reads like
a Trump enemies list, politicians and Trump critics who are often targeted
in his rally speeches and tweets."

Imagine that. Couldn't
be, could it? ... Not courtesy of one of his sick sycophants, is
it? -- Or, is it?

"Just Monday night at
a rally in Texas, Trump's criticism of Hillary Clinton prompted the now-familiar
chants of "lock her up." He told the crowd Congresswoman Maxine Waters,
is a "low-IQ individual."

... While certainly no
fan of Maxine Waters, couldn't the very same be said of the Trump nazi
himself? LOL. ... At least, Ms. Waters takes no shit from Trump.
Gives as good as she gets. -- Most unlike Republican nazis like Sen.
Ted "Screw's Loose" Cruz. Who gutlessly failed to stand up for his
wife when she was criticized by Trump, then accepted Trump's endorsement
at a campaign rally recently.

"A week ago, at a rally
in Montana, Trump imagined a fight with former Vice President Joe Biden.
"He'd be down so fast," Trump said to laughter as part of a riff in which
he praised a Republican congressman for body slamming a reporter. Suspected
pipe bombs have been sent to all three of them, and at least five others,
all of whom have criticized Trump and been criticized by him."

Couldn't be coincidence,
could it?

"None of the devices have
exploded."

Thankfully, not yet.

"At a campaign rally Wednesday
night, Trump started by delivering a statement about the ongoing investigation,
"any acts or threats of political violence are an attack on our democracy
itself," Trump said, calling for people on "all sides" to come together
in peace and harmony.'

"Those engaged in the
political arena must stop treating political opponents as being morally
defective," Trump said, possibly referring to his critics rather than himself."

Wake up, Mr. 'President.'
You
are morally defective, sir. Evidence? Overwhelming.
As repeatedly covered in this publication and elsewhere.

"The tone was subdued
by the standards of a Trump rally. He mostly stuck to the script and delivered
a speech that could just as easily have been in the East Room of the White
House rather than an aircraft hangar in a part of Wisconsin that is Trump
county. And the president was transparent about what he was trying to do.
"Do you see how nice I'm behaving tonight," Trump said. "We're all behaving
very well, and hopefully we can keep it that way, right?"

Sickening, isn't it?
Trump not only embraces, revels in incivility, now wants to turn
a new leaf? Give me a break.

Not to last, however.
Get this:

"Not even 24 hours later,
Trump was back to his old self on twitter, seeming to blame the media for
what is happening. "A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society
is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream
Media that I refer to as Fake News," he wrote."

Trump remains a congenital
liar.

"A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by
the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that
I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond
description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018"

The 'president' is achingly,
hopelessly delusional. Major news sources do the very best they can
to get at the truth, then report it. -- Despite the fact truth remains
a moving target, courtesy of continual lying by all politicians.
Both parties. Conveniently forget? For decades, truth has indeed
been ruthlessly obliterated by the nazis running our formerly great country.

Became a way of life as
our formerly great country lost its way. For the phony, ersatz sake
of political expediency. Exponentially exacerbated by the congenital
liar now ensconced in the Oval Office, his henchmen, particularly, his
clueless Press Secretary. ... How do you know Trump's aides are lying?
Their lips move. No more than a chip off the old block. Forget?
In a nazi state, day is night, night is day, and shit smells perversely
sweet. All ass backwards.

"Holding court on the
driveway outside the West Wing, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders elaborated,
saying media coverage of Trump is 90 percent negative and while he condemns
violence he feels "everyone has a role to play."

Called the truth, Ms.
Sanders. Wake up. Negative due to the psychotic
behavior of your fuhrer, madam. -- That very same behavior
encourages aberrant behavior in sick supporters. ... Including you,
madam. Have you no honor, no principles? How can you lie for
this lunatic son of a bitch on a continuing basis?

"Sanders specifically
called out CNN, which had to evacuate its New York studios yesterday after
one of the specific packages showed up in the network's mail room. It was
addressed to former CIA director John Brennan, who has been a vocal Trump
critic. Brennan responded to Trump's tweet telling him to stop blaming
others and look in the mirror."

"Your inflammatory rhetoric,
insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful,"
Brennan wrote. "Clean up your act....try to act Presidential. The American
people deserve much better. BTW, your critics will not be intimidated into
silence."

"Stop
blaming others. Look in the mirror. Your inflammatory rhetoric, insults,
lies, & encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful. Clean up
your act....try to act Presidential. The American people deserve much better.
BTW, your critics will not be intimidated into silence. https://t.co/cS5qNiuU7o —
John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) October 25, 2018"

No one's said it better,
Mr. Brennan. Hat's off.

"It is not yet known who
is behind the packages or what their political leanings may be."

Not yet.

"Sanders told reporters
there's a big difference between insulting his critics and taking action.
Trump is no more responsible for the suspicious packages, she said, than
Bernie Sanders was for a supporter of his opening fire on the congressional
baseball practice last year."

Horse shit. Apples
and oranges. Your fuhrer is a miserable failure. Has
disgraced himself and our formerly great country. Desperate, aren't
you, Ms. Sanders? Like the Trump nazi, no honor, principles,
moral code, madam? What planet do you and your fuhrer live
on?

The Washington Post
reports:

"President Trump doubled
down Thursday on blaming the media for the nation’s incivility, as suspicious
packages sent by a suspected serial bomber continued to target Trump’s
outspoken critics."

Our out of control nazi
fuhrer
needs to look in the mirror. Assess blame where it truly belongs.

“A very big part of the
Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and
inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News,”
the president said in a morning tweet. “It has gotten so bad and hateful
that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act,
FAST!”

Our nazi fuhrer
needs to do precisely what he delusionally preaches. Conveniently,
ignores the fact the media is indeed publishing the truth. Backed
by the facts. Precisely, exactly what this lunatic narcissist cannot
withstand. Nor can his equally psychotic sick sycophants.

"The president has long
made the media a target of his ire, denouncing reporters as the “enemy
of the people.”

Next to the Second Amendment,
the media is the last best defense of liberty. A national socialist,
fascist, nazi cannot understand, grasp this. Worse? Couldn't
care less. Precisely, why Trump presents an exigent threat to life,
liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. So do
his sick sycophants.

"The targets of suspicious
packages in recent days have all been derided by Trump as well. After De
Niro attacked him in June, Trump fired back on Twitter, calling him a “very
Low IQ individual” who had taken “too many shots to the head by real boxers
in movies.” One of the undetonated devices was found Wednesday at CNN’s
New York headquarters. It was addressed to former CIA director John O.
Brennan. Since leaving the government, he has been an outspoken critic
of Trump; he is an on-air analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, rather than CNN."

To his credit, did not
take Trump's latest bullshit lying down:

"On Thursday, Brennan
responded to Trump’s tweet with a scathing tweet of his own. “Stop blaming
others,” Brennan said. “Look in the mirror. Your inflammatory rhetoric,
insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful.
Clean up your act. ... try to act Presidential. The American people deserve
much better. BTW, your critics will not be intimidated into silence.”

Won't be. None of
us. Certainly, not this writer.

"Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)
also condemned the president’s tweet. “Rise up, America,” he said on Twitter.
“The President of the United States is now blaming the attempted murder
of Democrats on press criticism of him. I didn’t think his narcissism could
sink to this ugly of a place. But it has.”

Called nazism. From
a lunatic, unbalanced, narcissistic nazi. The public cannot, will
not be silent.

"Sen. Chris Van Hollen
(D-Md.) credited Trump for calling for unity during remarks about the pipe
bombs made at the White House on Wednesday afternoon. But Van Hollen said
that moment was “fleeting.” By Wednesday night, “he was at a rally blaming
everybody but himself for this toxic political environment we find ourselves
in,” Van Hollen said in a CNN interview. “Everybody needs to do their part
here,” Van Hollen said. “When the president went to the rally last night,
he didn’t do his part.”

More than that?
Far worse than that? Treasonously betrayed his country, oath of office
to protect and defend the United States Constitution, rule of law.
Done so since taking office. Repeatedly.

"Sanders also pushed back
on a stinging statement by CNN World President Jeff Zucker hours after
the package sent to Brennan led to the evacuation of the network’s staff
from the Time Warner Center in Manhattan. “There is a total and complete
lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their
continued attacks on the media,” Zucker said. “The President, and especially
the White House Press Secretary, should understand their words matter.
Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that.”

Quite the opposite.

"On Thursday, Sanders
said she found it “absolutely disgraceful that one of the first public
statements we heard from CNN yesterday was to put the blame and the responsibility
of this despicable act on the president and on me personally when the person
who is responsible for this is the person who made and created and put
these suspicious packages in the hands and in the arms of innocent American
citizens.”

The Press Secretary and
her psychotic fuhrer seem to have disingenuously, deceptively, conveniently
forgotten their rhetoric elicits this aberrant behavior in their sick sycophants.
Yet, don't seem to understand this, can't grasp the impact of their psychotic
rhetoric. ... Or, worse yet, are deliberately, deceptively doing
so to elicit this reaction in their sick sycophants.

Either way, the damage
is horrendous. An exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and
constitutional rights and liberties. Un-American. Right Wing
nazi. ... As the revolution doomsday clock strikes ever closer to
midnight. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second
American
revolution catastrophically looming. ... As Trump's sick sycophants
remain out to lunch. Delusional.

CBS News reports:

"President Trump took
to Twitter in the very wee hours Friday to continue his run-in with his
critics over the series of suspicious devices sent to prominent Democrats
this week."

Raw, rampant insanity:

"At 3:14 a.m., he tweeted,
"Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even
blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this
to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them
they go wild and scream, 'it's just not Presidential!'"

Poor deluded sick nazi.
Achingly, out to lunch.

"Many media members and
politicians have blamed him for setting a harsh tone and not taking responsibility
for contributing to the ongoing poisonous political atmosphere."

For damned good reason.
Remains root cause.

"Nobody else is being
as divisive and inciteful as Donald Trump and so to suggest otherwise is
completely wrong," said former Housing and Urban Development Secretary
Julian Castro, who is considering a 2020 Democratic presidential campaign.
"We wouldn't even be having this conversation with any other president,
Republican or Democrat, because they would be big enough to avoid this
kind of hateful and inciteful rhetoric."

Forget? Our out of control
fuhrer
is a lunatic, achingly out of touch with reality. Dangerously, so.
The true threat is not the poisonous political atmosphere. Remains
the exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights
and liberties posed by the nazi element in our formerly great country.

NBC News reports:

"A man in Florida was
taken into custody Friday and will be charged in connection with the series
of bombs found this week addressed to critics of President Donald Trump,
law enforcement officials said shortly after the latest two devices were
found. Cesar Sayoc, Jr., 56, who has been previously arrested on unspecified
charges, is currently in custody, law enforcement officials said. DNA evidence
played a role in the arrest, law enforcement told NBC News. Investigators
in the Plantation, Florida, parking lot where Sayoc was arrested could
be seen placing a tarp over a van with windows covered with dozens of pictures
of Trump and decals, one of which appeared to be a version of a presidential
seal."

Good they made a quick
arrest. Appears to be great police work. Hopefully, he's the
one and only perpetrator.

"On CNN, where [former
U.S. Director of National Intelligence James]
Clapper works as a contributor, he called the series of mailed explosives
"domestic terrorism." "I think anyone who has in any way been a critic,
publicly been a critic of President Trump needs to be on extra alert and
take some cautions, precautions, particularly with respect to mail," he
said. Clapper stressed that he wasn't "suggesting a direct cause-and-effect
relationship" between anything the president has said or done and the sending
of the packages, but "I do think he bears some responsibility for the coarseness
and un-civility of the dialogue in this country, and that he needs to remember
that his words count." After Friday's bombs were discovered, Trump tweeted,
"Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now
this 'Bomb' stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows - news not talking
politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!."

Sadly clueless, isn't
he?

"At least some of the
devices sent were flawed in varying ways and would not have exploded, investigators
said Thursday. But it's unclear whether the deficiencies were intentional
or the result of faulty construction, and officials urged the public to
remain vigilant."

"The Justice Department
charged a Florida man on Friday in connection with a wave of improvised
explosive devices sent to political critics of President Trump. Cesar Altieri
Sayoc, 56, is facing five federal charges after he was arrested in Plantation,
Fla., following a national investigation. He faces a potential total of
48 years in prison. (Earlier Friday, a Justice Department spokesperson
had erroneously said Sayoc could face up to 58 years in prison.) The homemade
bombs intercepted or discovered this week "are not hoax devices," said
FBI Director Christopher Wray during a press conference with law enforcement
officials Friday. They contained "energetic materials" packed into PVC
pipes and could have been dangerous, he said, although none of them exploded
and no one was hurt. Asked at the same press conference why it appeared
that Sayoc only allegedly targeted liberal political figures, Attorney
General Jeff Sessions said "he may have been a partisan ... appears to
be partisan, but that will be determined as the case goes forward."

CBS News reports:

"Just before Mr. Trump
was scheduled to deliver remarks for Turning Point USA's black leadership
summit at the White House Friday, law enforcement officials arrested 56-year-old
Cesar Sayoc in Florida. "These terrorizing acts are despicable and have
no place in our country," the president said. We must never allow political
violence to take root in America. I'm committed to doing everything in
my power to stop it," Mr. Trump vowed. He also praised U.S. law enforcement
for doing "an incredible, incredible job" and called it the "best in the
world." And he called on Americans to unify and "show the world we are
united in peace and love and harmony."

Raw insanity.

The Washington Post
reports:

"President Trump began
his first public appearance after Friday’s arrest of a mail bomb suspect
on a seemingly inclusive note, declaring as he read a script from teleprompters
that “we must never allow political violence to take root in America” and
pledging to “stop it and stop it now.”

Seems to have conveniently,
delusionally forgotten he's root cause.

"But then he kept going.
Standing in the White House’s ornate East Wing, the president expressed
annoyance that numerous bombs sent to Democrats and a news organization
that Trump had long demonized had taken the spotlight from his Medicare
drug prices announcement the day before. He told the audience of young
black leaders he was addressing that the Democratic Party has betrayed
them. He laughed along as some in the crowd chanted “Fake News!” And he
echoed a chant of “Lock him up!” about liberal philanthropist George Soros,
one of this week’s bomb targets."

Isn't it riveting that
it is indeed a Right Wing nazi, one of his own, a sick sycophant, a fellow
Republican that sent these goddamned bombs to those who had the courage,
audacity to rhetorically challenge the Trump nazi and his henchmen?
Would you believe a number of these whackos initially blamed the Left for
doing so? LOL.

"Ten days before the Nov.
6 elections and facing a host of controversies and crises, Trump has not
merely struggled to unify the country — he has shown little interest in
trying. Time and again, the former reality television impresario has sought
to sow discord, betting that most Americans prefer his pugilistic, divisive
style over the sanitized mold of his predecessors."

"The midterm elections
are increasingly becoming a test of the enduring power of Trumpiness: A
brand of anything-goes, combative politics focused on personal attacks
and demagogic rhetoric, with little consideration for the presidential
tradition of providing moral clarity and unity at moments of tragedy or
danger."

This sick nazi in the
Oval Office presents an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and
constitutional rights and liberties. Appears to be an evil reincarnation
of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini. Our formerly great country is
precisely, politically where Nazi Germany was in 1933 when Hitler became
Chancellor. The worst, then, was yet to come. So too today,
decades later. His opposition will not remain cowardly silent.

“These are the times when
words really matter,” said historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of a
new book on the subject, “Leadership: In Turbulent Times.”

Indeed, they do.
Precisely, why his opposition will not remain silent.

"Throughout history, Goodwin
explained: “There are moments when the president’s ambition for self becomes
an ambition for the greater good, to become a leader rather than simply
a holder of power. The president is in a unique position during moments
of crisis for the nation to mobilize the people around common ideals that
should bind us together.”

Not so, any longer.
Trump dangerously emulates his German Nazi mentor.

"This week offered a fresh
example of Trump’s alternative approach: As pipe bombs were discovered
addressed to prominent Democrats and a news network that have been subjects
of Trump’s caustic campaign-trail attacks, the president sounded a call
for national unity."

There is no way in Hell
or on earth there will be 'national unity' under a nazi fuhrer.
Some eight decades ago, the horror of national socialism, fascism, nazism
screams otherwise. All the dead spinning in their graves. Wake
up.

"But the words rang hollow
throughout the week as Trump assailed the “Fake News” media, shirked any
personal responsibility for his incendiary rhetoric and, on Friday morning,
used his bully pulpit to advance a baseless conspiracy theory that the
bombs were both fake and orchestrated by the left. Roughly an hour later,
authorities arrested 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, a man in Florida with a lengthy
criminal record whose white van was covered in pro-Trump and anti-Democratic
images."

Credit to the FBI for
quickly solving this crime. Making a fool of the Trump nazi, his
sick sycophants, and other whackos in the Republican Party. Clearly,
at least this time, the FBI put country first.

"Later Friday afternoon,
as he departed Washington for a rally in Charlotte, Trump told reporters
he has no plans to tone down his rhetoric — “I could really tone it up,”
he said — and noted that the suspect “was a person that preferred me over
others.” He also rejected the notion of responsibility: “There’s no blame.
There’s no anything.”

This clueless nazi remains
hopelessly delusional. Psychotic.

"His supporters often
argue there is no clear connection between the president’s impolitic remarks
and violent acts or threats. In the case of the pipe bombs, which his own
FBI director said were “not hoax devices,” many Trump backers emphasized
Friday that no one had been injured."

His supporters remain
as psychotic, hopelessly delusional as their achingly sick 'hero.'

"With many in the Republican
Party following his lead, the president has repeatedly cast Democrats as
an out-of-control “angry mob” that is “too dangerous to govern.” Last week,
with no evidence, he claimed that unknown “Middle Easterners” had infiltrated
the caravans of Central American migrants snaking their way north toward
the nation’s southern border before ultimately admitting he had “no proof”
for the claim."

Phony propaganda.
Raw nazism. Congenital liar.

"And on Thursday, news
broke that the administration is weighing a plan that would seek to close
the U.S. border to Central Americans entirely and deny them the chance
to seek asylum."

Should that happen, would
be in direct violation of federal statutes. As long as refugees present
themselves at legal border crossings, ports of entry, federal law states
requests for asylum must be considered.

"More recently, after
frequent targets of Trump’s criticism became the actual targets of at least
14 attempted pipe bombs — including former president Barack Obama, former
secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), former
attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and CNN — the president decried “the
threat of violence as a method of political intimidation, coercion or control.”
But Trump has disputed that he contributes to a divisive political climate
and has continued his attacks, calling the media “so bad and hateful that
it is beyond description.”

Called the truth.
-- Truth the Trump nazi, any dictator, any despot cannot, will not
accept. Hitler lied like hell. So did Mussolini. So did
Stalin. So did Mao. Wake up.

"Former CIA director John
O. Brennan, the addressed target of an explosive mailed to CNN’s New York
headquarters, chastised Trump and urged him to “stop blaming others.” “Your
inflammatory rhetoric, insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence
are disgraceful,” Brennan wrote in a Thursday tweet. “Clean up your act....try
to act Presidential. The American people deserve much better.” Responding
to Brennan’s criticism on Fox News, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders
defended her boss. “The president, I think, could not have been more presidential
yesterday when he spoke directly to the American people,” she said Thursday."

Delusional horse shit,
highly indicative of the fact the Press Secretary herself has cowardly,
delusionally succumbed to this great evil in the Oval Office.

"For several days, some
prominent Trump allies on the right, including talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh,
fanned a “false-flag” conspiracy theory that the bombs were not real and
directed by liberals as a way to reverse Trump’s campaign-trail argument
that Democrats are “the party of mobs” and show that conservatives, too,
favor mob tactics."

"Later Friday morning,
Trump edged toward an endorsement of that theory. “Republicans are doing
so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this ‘Bomb’ stuff happens
and the momentum greatly slows,” the president tweeted."

Surprised? Why?
The abomination in the Oval Office remains as hopelessly psychotic as his
sick sycophants. Great evil personified. History perniciously
repeating itself.

"In a least one high-profile
moment — the deadly violence last year at a white-supremacist rally in
Charlottesville — Trump wavered. After coming under criticism for blaming
the violence on “both sides,” Trump gave a speech condemning racist hate
groups as “repugnant to all that we hold dear as Americans.” But he almost
immediately told aides that his lofty remarks were among his biggest mistakes,
describing it as the “worst speech I’ve ever given,” according to Bob Woodward’s
new book, “Fear.”

Mark of a nazi dictator.
Our best and brightest died fighting this scourge, abominable evil decades
ago, Second World War European Theater. We cannot remain gutlessly
silent.

“It’s very hard to think
of a president in American history who has been as aggressively divisive
as this one and who has shown essentially no moral leadership,” said James
K. Glassman, a former ambassador and undersecretary of state who is the
founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute. “Presidents
set the tone, and certainly you can’t say President Trump is responsible
for somebody sending bombs to Democratic leaders across the country, but
there is a climate in this country that’s being encouraged by the president.”

Quite right. Great
evil.

"Trump has long exhibited
disinterest in expected norms of the presidency, arguing that his freewheeling
style is more exciting. “It’s so easy to be presidential, but instead of
having 10,000 people outside trying to get into this packed arena, we’d
have about 200 people,” Trump said during a recent campaign rally in Wheeling,
W.Va., exaggerating the size of the crowd."

Lying. Insanity
run amok.

"Then, he held up a sheet
of paper and began impersonating his version of a more conventional commander
in chief, rattling off a list of buzzwords — “ladies and gentlemen,” “great
Americans,” and “thousand points of light.” “Which,” Trump said, continuing
to ad-lib, “nobody has really figured out.”

This man is psychotic.
An exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights
and liberties. Wake up. Before too late.

"Authorities say they
found Sayoc's fingerprint on one of the suspicious packages and possibly
his DNA inside two others. "These people have worked so hard and to have
done it so quickly," Trump exclaimed. "It's a needle in a haystack." Speaking
to a group of young African-Americans in the White House East Room, Trump
delivered a conventional call for the nation to come together. "We must
show the world we are united together in peace and love and harmony as
fellow American citizens," the president said. "There is no country like
our country. Hours later, though, Trump was back on the partisan warpath,
campaigning against "extreme" and "radical" Democrats, and denouncing the
news media for suggesting he's contributed to a hostile climate in the
country. "We have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the
sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me"
and the Republican party, Trump told supporters in Charlotte, N.C."

Where along the way did
you lose yourself, Mr. 'President?' Where?

The Washington Post
reports:

“We need all hands on
deck, we need to stay vigilant,” said FBI Director Christopher A. Wray.
He characterized the 13 explosive devices recovered so far as “IEDs,” an
abbreviation for improvised explosive devices. Wray said that investigators
were able to pinpoint Sayoc after finding a fingerprint on an envelope
containing a bomb sent to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and that DNA found
on two of the devices was a possible match to a sample previously taken
from Sayoc during an earlier arrest in Florida. One law enforcement official
said the fingerprint discovery was a major breakthrough. With that, authorities
began zeroing in on Sayoc on Thursday, gathering cellphone records to track
his past movements and conducting real-time surveillance of his location
and activities, the official said."

Good work. No question.

The Washington Post
reports:

"Cesar Sayoc stood in
the throng of shouting, teeth-gnashing Trump supporters and joined a chant
directed at news cameras. “CNN sucks! CNN sucks!” they screamed. “Tell
the truth! Tell the truth!” Sayoc had seemingly found his tribe at the
Trump rally in February 2017. In previously unreleased video captured by
the crew of filmmaker Michael Moore, the sleeveless shirt Sayoc wore that
day in Melbourne, Fla., featured a collage of pro-Trump imagery, and his
sign, like his chants, derided CNN — perhaps the most frequent target of
Trump’s anti-media rage. In that way, Sayoc — now known as the mail-bomb
suspect — had already transformed into the human avatar of his van’s rolling
fever dream of political paranoia. The image emblazoned on his shirt could
also be seen on a large decal on the white van found during Sayoc’s arrest,
near other images of prominent Democrats, including Moore. Also on that
van: a large decal that read “CNN sucks.”

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

"Four Southern California
men, allegedly part of a white supremacist group, have been charged by
federal prosecutors for violent attacks on counterprotesters, journalists
and a police officer at political rallies across the state. Three of the
four are in custody. The New York Times reports that Robert Rundo, 28 was
taken into custody on Sunday at the Los Angeles International Airport after
fleeing to Central America earlier this month. Robert Boman, 25, and Tyler
Laube, 22, were arrested Wednesday morning. Authorities are searching for
the fourth man — Aaron Eason, 38."

History dangerously repeating
itself. Reincarnation of Hitler's Third Reich to the Trump
nazi's Fourth. Wake up.

"The criminal complaint,
filed by the FBI out of Los Angeles on Saturday and unsealed on Wednesday,
alleges the four are part of the white supremacist Rise Above Movement.
RAM subscribes to a racist, anti-Semitic ideology and trains its members
in combat. The group "represents itself publicly as a combat-ready, militant
group of a new nationalist white supremacy/identity movement," the complaint
says."

Good to see the FBI is
standing up to this scourge. Does not embrace the view of the Trump
nazi vis a vis outrageously fascist white nationalist groups.

"The allegations describe
an orchestrated effort to squelch free speech as members of the conspiracy
traveled to multiple locations to attack those who hold different views,"
said U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna in a news release."

Many in our formerly great
country seem to have forgotten the scourge of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini.
Time to smarten up.

"Videos recorded by journalists,
bystanders and surveillance cameras, as well as posts on the Internet from
the group's members and private social media communications between them,
helped the Department of Justice build its case."

Good to see at least some
citizens are courageously standing up to this scourge straight out of Hell.

"The DOJ alleges the four
men violated federal conspiracy and riot statutes in a series of incidents
from March to June of 2017."

With the Sessions nazi
at the helm of the DOJ, surprising to see the 'Justice' Department taking
action. Pressure had to have been enormous.

"At a Make America Great
Again rally in Huntington Beach in March, the DOJ said in its criminal
complaint, members of RAM attacked two journalists and a number of counterprotesters."

Repeat of history.
Hitler's Brownshirts did precisely the same in 1933 as the Nazi son of
a bitch rose to power.

"Video footage shows Laube
punched one journalist three times in the face, after the reporter was
jostled by other rally attendees and stumbled backwards."

"The Daily Stormer — a
neo-Nazi website and online community — praised the violence. "Front page
of the stormer we did it fam," one RAM member texted another. In the weeks
after the attacks, members allegedly gleefully celebrated the attacks and
recruited others to attend an upcoming rally in Berkeley, as well as a
training session in hand-to-hand combat before the gathering."

Wake up, friends.

"At that April rally,
Rundo, Boman and Easaon assaulted people at the rally. Videos show group
members with taped hands — like boxers — punching counterprotesters. In
one attack, a RAM member held down a counterprotester while another landed
punches. Rundo was arrested for punching a "defenseless person" and a police
officer. "Total Aryan victory," a RAM member texted another member the
next day."

This is precisely what
happened at the birth of Nazi Germany. Wake up. Hitler's
Brownshirts.

"RAM members again celebrated
their assaults, according to the complaint. They posted photos of members
holding up a banner celebrating they stole from counterprotesters. On social
media, Boman posted several photos of himself attacking others and of RAM
members engaged in combat training. Wednesday's charges follows the arrests
earlier this month of another four RAM members — Benjamin Daley, Michael
Miselis, Thomas Gillen and Cole White — who were charged on conspiracy
to riot charges for attacking counterprotesters during last year's Unite
The Right rally in Charlottesville, Va."

Forget? Trump supports
these bastards. Excused their actions in Charlottesville. Compared
them to those protesting. Raw nazism.

"The California charges
describe connections between both sets of defendants. Between April and
August of 2017, the complaint alleges, RAM members "engaged in regular
combat training sessions" before attending the Unite the Right rally. They
also "used the internet to coordinate combat training in preparation for
the events, to arrange travel to the events, to coordinate attendance at
the events, and to celebrate their acts of violence in order to recruit
members for future events," the complaint said."

Wake up.
These nazis present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties.

"Members documented their
extremist ideology in public Internet posts, including their affinity of
the "14 words" — "a mantra known and used by white supremacy extremists
and neo-Nazis," FBI Special Agent Scott Bierwirth said in the complaint.
Also according to the California affidavit, Rundo and two men charged in
the Charlottesville case flew to Europe last spring to celebrate Adolf
Hitler's birthday. There, they met with other white supremacy groups."

Reincarnation of horrendous
evil. Time to wake up.

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

11-2-18

Saudis can't seem to get
their story straight. -- The problem with lying. The Washington
Post reports:

"Saudi Arabia’s public
prosecutor said Thursday that Jamal Khashoggi was killed in a planned operation,
citing information received from Turkish investigators in Istanbul, according
to a statement from the kingdom’s Foreign Ministry. It is the latest reversal
by Saudi authorities, who last week said Khashoggi was killed accidentally
in a fistfight at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by “rogue” agents. President
Trump had initially said that explanation was credible but in recent days
expressed doubts, calling it “the worst coverup ever.” According to the
statement, a joint Saudi-Turkish investigative team “indicates that the
suspects in the incident had committed their act with a premeditated intention.”

Which time were they lying?
Then or now?

"The announcement underscored
the rapidly mounting pressures on Saudi Arabia to fully illuminate Khashoggi’s
killing, after its previous explanations were contradicted by Turkey and
met with skepticism by the United States, a close Saudi ally."

Lying always comes
back to bite one hard on the ass.

Here's the problem with
all the deception, duplicity:

"Still, neither Trump
nor Saudi Arabia has been willing to trace the journalist’s killing to
an order by the royal court. U.S. intelligence officials and lawmakers
as well as the European Union have said that an operation targeting a critic
of the royal court in a foreign country is unlikely to have been ordered
without the knowledge of senior Saudi officials."

Trump can't, won't be
confused with the truth.

"Thursday’s announcement
comes days after CIA Director Gina Haspel traveled to Turkey and listened
to audio purportedly capturing Khashoggi’s murder, giving a key member
of Trump’s Cabinet access to the central piece of evidence Turkey has used
to assert that the killing was planned."

Haspel, herself, has unresolved
issues vis a vis torture in her earlier tenure at the CIA.

"In another sign that
the kingdom is seeking to contain the widespread fallout, Salah Khashoggi,
the eldest son of Jamal Khashoggi, has left Saudi Arabia, two people close
to the family said Thursday. The son, a dual U.S.-Saudi citizen who was
photographed receiving condolences from Salman and Mohammed on Tuesday,
previously had been restricted from leaving."

Imagine that. Figurative
noose is certainly tightening.

"Salah Khashoggi is headed
to the United States to join his three siblings, who are already there,
according to one of the people. The photos and video footage of him meeting
with the king and crown prince were released by the Saudi government in
an apparent effort to showcase their sympathy. Instead, the images elicited
scorn on social media, with critics accusing the leaders of exploiting
a grieving son."

The Washington Post
reports:

"Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis on Saturday condemned the killing of Washington Post contributor
and Saudi government critic Jamal Khashoggi as intolerable, minutes before
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, at the same venue, criticized the global
“hysteria” surrounding the murder."

Imagine that. Unlike
his fuhrer, Mattis stood tall.

"Mattis suggested the
killing threatened to undermine stability in the Middle East in his first
substantive comments on a cascading geopolitical crisis that risks rupturing
Saudi Arabia’s relations with the West."

Certainly, does.

"The defense secretary
made the remarks at a security conference in the island kingdom of Bahrain,
across a bridge from Saudi Arabia, shortly before Saudi Foreign Minister
Adel al-Jubeir decried what he said was a rush to conclusions before the
investigation’s completion."

Imagine that. Bastard
still doesn't get it.

"Since Khashoggi disappeared
at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, Saudi officials have issued
an evolving series of narratives. On Thursday, Saudi Arabia appeared to
acknowledge that its agents had murdered the dissident Saudi journalist
in a “premeditated” operation but have not implicated top officials, including
the de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Mattis also said
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would be taking unspecified “additional
measures” in response to the killing beyond the revocation of U.S. visas
for certain Saudi suspects. The administration, however, has so far been
reluctant to join calls by European allies and others for harsher measures
against Riyadh, including possible halt of arm sales."

That's a problem.
Forget? The Saudis have been f--king over the American public since
January, 1973, -- when gasoline prices doubled.

"Above all, Mattis pushed
the message that the Khashoggi killing was both a human rights issue and
a national security concern for nations in the Middle East. “When opposing
voices can be heard within a political process adapted to each nation’s
culture, one that permits peaceful opposition by giving voice and human
rights to all, a nation becomes more secure,” Mattis said. “When people
can speak and be heard calling for peace and respect for all, the terrorist
message of hatred and violence is not embraced. With our collective interests
in peace and unwavering respect for human rights in mind, the murder of
Jamal Khashoggi in a diplomatic facility must concern us all greatly,”
he continued."

Amazing, isn't it?
Some sanity left in the Trump regime. ... Can we stand it?
LOL.

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

11-2-18

Noose figuratively tightens.
NBC News reports:

"Special counsel Robert
Mueller's office has obtained communications suggesting that a right-wing
conspiracy theorist might have had advance knowledge that the emails of
Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman had been stolen and handed to WikiLeaks,
a source familiar with the investigation told NBC News."

Fascinating, isn't it?
If true, chilling as well.

"Mueller's team has spent
months investigating whether the conspiracy theorist, Jerome Corsi, learned
before the public did that WikiLeaks had obtained emails hacked by Russian
intelligence officers — and whether he passed information about the stolen
emails to Donald Trump associate Roger Stone, multiple sources said."

What webs we weave.

"Mueller's investigators
have reviewed messages to members of the Trump team in which Stone and
Corsi seem to take credit for the release of Democratic emails, said a
person with direct knowledge of the emails. The source and other people
familiar with the matter say they have seen no evidence suggesting either
man played any role in the hacking or release of the emails. Stone adamantly
denies doing anything but passing on information already in the public
domain."

Hopefully, for his sake,
that's so.

"Stone appears to be in
Mueller's investigative crosshairs, as the special counsel seeks to determine
whether the longtime political trickster participated in the secret Russian
operation to help Trump win the 2016 election. Mueller has summoned Corsi
and nearly a dozen other of Stone's associates to testify before his Washington,
D.C. grand jury, people familiar with the investigation told NBC News.
Some of them have described the sessions to reporters, saying they were
grilled about their conversations and communications with Stone. While
grand juries operate in secret, witnesses have a right to discuss their
testimony. "I was questioned vigorously for hours," said a former Stone
associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He told NBC News that Mueller's
investigators put enormous pressure on him to recall specific details from
the 2016 campaign. "They think they're on to something."

If that's truly the case,
think Trump's not shitting?

"In July, Mueller charged
12 Russian intelligence officers with conspiracy to violate U.S. election
laws by hacking Democratic emails and releasing them through fake online
personas, and later, WikiLeaks. If an American were found to have knowingly
aided that effort, he or she could be charged as a member of that conspiracy,
legal experts have said."

Long arm of the law.
Should certainly be enforced no matter which party suffers the brunt, and/or
the consequences.

Quite a complicated investigation.
Mueller appears to be leaving no stone unturned. Particularly impressive
since he, as a Republican, is courageously placing principle ahead of party
affiliation. Rare commodity these days.

"An author and commentator,
Corsi is considered to be the founder of the so-called Birther movement
of people who believed Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen, a lie that
Trump used to help propel his presidential candidacy. In 2017, Corsi became
the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for InfoWars, a web site run by Alex
Jones, whose inflammatory lies about the 2014 Sandy Hook Elementary School
shooting have gotten him banned from YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Corsi
no longer works there."

Imagine that.

"Mueller subpoenaed Corsi
in September, and he turned over computer, phone and email records, the
source said. Mueller's investigators have spent weeks interviewing many
of his contacts, asking them what he said about WikiLeaks, the source said."

No matter the outcome,
Mueller appears to be doing his job. ... If there's nothing there
ultimately in addition to all those already indicted, so be it. If
not, prosecute the living shit out of the rest of them, that is, all those
closest to the president. ... If the president himself is up to his
ears, Mueller will likely leave it to Congress to impeach, convict, and
remove him from office. -- Think the pressure wouldn't be enormous
to do so?

"Questioned by Mueller's
prosecutors about why he appeared to know before anyone else that WikiLeaks
had Clinton campaign chair John Podesta's emails, Corsi told them he simply
figured it out on his own, the source said. He concluded, after seeing
little about Podesta in the initial WikiLeaks dump of emails stolen from
the Democratic National Committee, that the anti-secrecy organization was
holding Podesta's communications for an "October surprise," the source
said."

Credible? Interesting
to see what ultimately comes of this. ... If anything.

"The source said he is
aware of no evidence obtained by the Mueller team that would contradict
that assertion."

"Corsi maintained that
he did not learn anything about the matter from WikiLeaks, which began
dumping Podesta's emails on Oct. 7, 2016, just hours after a tape became
public on which Trump boasted about grabbing women's genitalia. However,
Corsi expressed in emails a willingness to travel to London and meet with
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the source said."

Where's smoke, there's
fire?

"For the record, I have
never had any communication of any kind with Julian Assange, WikiLeaks,
or Guccifer 2.0, or any Russian agents of any kind, including those mythical
Russian agents who the Democrats believe wanted to throw the election for
Trump," Corsi wrote in March 2017 on InfoWars."

For his sake, hope so.
If not, his ass is likely going down.

"Stone denied that Corsi
ever told him before it became public that Podesta's emails had been obtained
by WikiLeaks, and he denies involvement with Russia, telling NBC News it's
a "left-wing conspiracy theory." But he also says he expects to be indicted,
and a lawyer close to the case told NBC News he thought that was likely
as well."

Amazing how the Nazi Right
seems to always lay the blame on "left-wing
conspiracy theory." Both extremes do
this when they've backed themselves into a corner.

"Stone has a recent history
of changing his story about his interactions with Russians."

Think he won't be indicted?

"In June 2016, he said:
"I didn't talk to anybody who was identifiably Russian during the two-year
run-up to this campaign," he said. But that was false. In fact, as he acknowledged
this year, he met with a Russian in May 2016 — a month before he issued
that categorical denial — who offered to sell incriminating information
to the Trump campaign. In the wake of that acknowledgment, he was forced
to amend his testimony to the House intelligence committee. He said he
had forgotten about the proposal and rebuffed it, telling the Washington
Post "[Trump] doesn't pay for anything."

Gets worse:

"Now, Stone is insisting
in equally unequivocal terms that he never passed inside information about
stolen Democratic emails from the Russians — or their intermediary, WikiLeaks
— to the Trump team. He says so despite a series of public statements he
made in summer 2016 suggesting he had advance knowledge of WikiLeaks disclosures
of the material hacked by Russian intelligence agencies, including a tweet
in August that it soon would be John Podesta's "time in the barrel." Stone's
assertion is being put to a fearsome test by Mueller, who has grilled Stone's
associates about their dealings and communications with him, sources familiar
with the testimony told NBC News."

Amazing, isn't it, anyone
up to their ears in this would sit down and talk to the FBI and/or prosecutors?

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

11-2-18

Racism remains alive and
well. This time, against a black GOP campaign worker. CBS News
reports:

"Police arrested a man
for allegedly harassing and threatening to assault a black GOP campaign
worker at an early-voting location in Charlotte Wednesday afternoon, according
to CBS affiliate WBTV in Charlotte."

"The incident happened
around 2:30 p.m. at a voting location in the 11000 block of South Tryon
Street, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Officers
arrived in response to an armed man threatening a campaign worker at a
voting location."

Achingly, inexplicable.
Aggressive stupidity. On a number of levels.

"Officials say a black
man said he was working at the voting location when he saw the armed man
in the parking lot with a camera taking pictures or recording the polling
location. Police say he approached the campaign worker, and began hurling
racial slurs, according to a report from CMPD."

"The campaign worker said
the armed man threatened to assault him before lifting his shirt and displaying
a handgun which was in a holster on his belt. He told police the armed
man never assaulted him or attempted to remove the handgun from the holster.
Around 9:15 p.m., Jason Donald Wayne, 28, was arrested. Police say he was
carrying a BB gun in a holster which was located and seized as evidence.
Police say Wayne was charged with going armed to the terror of the people,
ethnic intimidation, communicating threats and disorderly conduct."

This crap has to end.
Is tearing our formerly great country apart. Moreover, aggressive
stupidity to bring a 'knife' to a gunfight, -- so to speak.

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

11-2-18

The following is an appalling
atrocity perpetrated by an anti-Semitic Right Wing nazi. CBS News
reports:

"A gunman who frequently
posted anti-Semitic threats online burst into a busy Pittsburgh synagogue
on Saturday and opened fire, killing 11 people and injuring six others.
After exchanging gunfire with police, 46-year-old Robert Bowers surrendered
and was taken into custody. U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said federal prosecutors
are seeking approval to pursue the death penalty against Bowers, who was
injured during the shootout with police. He is scheduled to make his first
court appearance Monday. Bowers entered the Tree of Life Congregation Saturday
morning and fired inside while expressing his hatred toward Jewish people,
according to a charging document made public Sunday. It said the statements
continued during his gunfight with police, with Bowers telling one officer:
"They're committing genocide to my people. I just want to kill Jews."

Raw nazism. As our
formerly great country continues to nazify under the abomination in the
Oval Office.

"Bowers was armed with
an AR-15 and three handguns during the 20-minute assault. Wendell Hissrich,
the city's public safety director, said there was no further threat to
the public. "It's a very horrific crime scene," he told reporters Sunday.
"It's one of the worst that I've seen, and I've been on some plane crashes.
It's very bad."

This aberrant behavior
will continue to worsen as this country continues to move to the Hard Right.

"Robert Jones, head of
the FBI's Pittsburgh office, said worshippers at the synagogue were "brutally
murdered by a gunman targeting them simply because of their faith." Jones
said Bowers' full motive is unknown, but said investigators believe he
acted alone. Gov. Tom Wolf arrived at the scene Saturday and called the
attack an "absolute tragedy."

"President Trump called
the shooting was "far more devastating" than anyone previously thought.
Mr. Trump said there would have been a different outcome if the synagogue
had an armed guard at the building. "If there was an armed guard inside
the temple, they would have been able to stop him, maybe there would have
been nobody killed, except for him, frankly," Mr. Trump told reporters
at Joint Base Andrews on Saturday, adding that the U.S. should "stiffen
up" its laws on the death penalty. "When people do this, they should get
the death penalty," he added. "And they shouldn't have to wait years and
years. I think they should very much bring the death penalty into vogue."

The hypocrisy of the Trump
nazi knows no bounds. White nationalists endorse the Trump nazi.
Tell you anything? Anything at all?

The Washington Post
reports:

"At the end of a weekend
that redefined concepts of religious hatred in the United States, a grieving
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers directly linked Saturday’s massacre at his Tree of
Life synagogue to the rhetoric of U.S. politicians. “It starts with speech,”
Myers said to loud applause at a Sunday-evening vigil attended by two U.S.
senators. “It has to start with you as our leaders. My words are not intended
as political fodder. I address all equally. Stop the words of hate.”

It's nazism, Rabbi.
The world failed to initially stand up to Hitler. History will not
be repeated here in our formerly great country.

"Two hours after the rabbi’s
speech, President Trump absolved himself of responsibility and once again
blamed others for the nation’s troubles. “The Fake News is doing everything
in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division
and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country,” Trump wrote
on Twitter on Sunday night. “Actually, it is their Fake & Dishonest
reporting which is causing problems far greater than they understand!”

This man has lost his
mind. Media is accurately reporting the truth. The Trump nazi
continues to blatantly and repeatedly lie. A congenital liar.
This bastard, his henchmen, and sick sycophants are not 'conservatives.'
They're national socialists, fascists, nazis. Fascism, nazism,
national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business,
and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"With that, a weekend
that marked the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history ended."

Sadly, tragically, far
worse to come. Repeat of history. As our formerly great country
continues to transition from the fascist police-state we've lived in since
9/11 to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

NPR reports:

"The alternative social
media network that was reportedly used by the suspect in the deadly shooting
at a Pittsburgh synagogue is now down. Gab.com is a social network that
touts itself as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook to give conservatives
a platform for free speech. But it also has been criticized for providing
a platform for anti-Semitism and white nationalism. The site has come in
for increased scrutiny since the shooting. As of Monday, the site displayed
a message saying it had been "systematically no-platformed by App Stores,
multiple hosting providers, and several payment processors." "We have been
smeared by the mainstream media for defending free expression and individual
liberty for all people and for working with law enforcement to ensure that
justice is served for the horrible atrocity committed at Pittsburgh," it
said."

If the site did promulgate
violence, it should be taken down. If it did not, who's next?
Despicable speech needs to be confronted by more speech.

Uncommon valor.
NBC News reports:

"The gunman didn’t ambush
Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz during prayers. As the shooter stalked his victims
in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Rabinowitz rushed to help
the wounded, according to his nephew Avishai Ostrin. The price Rabinowitz
paid for his compassion was his life."

Stood tall. Uncommon
valor. Heroic.

“He was a doctor, a healer,”
Ostrin said in a Facebook post Sunday. “When he heard shots he ran outside
to try and see if anyone was hurt and needed a doctor.” He added: “That
was Uncle Jerry, that’s just what he did.” Rabinowitz, 66, was one of 11
people killed in the mass shooting at the synagogue when authorities say
Robert Bowers opened fire during services Saturday. A married couple, two
brothers and a 97-year-old woman were also among those who died."

Unspeakable carnage.
Repeat of Nazi history under Hitler's Third Reich. -- Trump's
Fourth.

NBC News reports:

"Myers was beginning Saturday
morning services when shots rang out in the synagogue. He said he initially
thought the noise was a coat rack falling, but then instinct kicked in,
and he realized he was hearing gunfire. He was able to aid the people sitting
in the front of the sanctuary, but as the shots got closer and louder,
he was unable to usher the people in the back to safety. "I heard him execute
my congregants," Myers said. Myers then called 911, and stayed on the line
for "what felt like it was an eternity," he said. The time that elapsed
was about 20 minutes, officials have told him. All the while, the gunman
was stalking his victims. The suspected shooter, Robert Bowers, 46, had
left a trail of anti-Semitic posts online before entering the synagogue
with an assault rifle and at least three handguns Saturday. The rabbi said
he was the first to call police, and wouldn't have even had his phone on
him if not for a consult with a security advisor in August. "I normally
don't carry it on the Jewish Sabbath, but I learned from him, as he said,
'Rabbi, it's a different world. You need to carry it,'" Myers said on ABC's
"Good Morning America."

The carnage, -- breathtaking.

"Myers said on "Today"
that he's experiencing "anger and disbelief all rolled into one." "I’m
standing at a cemetery and this is a massive mausoleum," Myers said, adding
his sanctuary cannot be used in its current condition. "It’s my home and
it’s been desecrated." "The bullet holes are too numerous to count," he
said. "But we will rebuild because we’re Tree of Life. We've been here
154 years. And you can cut off some branches, but the tree will continue
to grow." While Myers said he would welcome Trump if the president chose
to come to Pittsburgh to pay condolences, the former president of Tree
of Life Synagogue said on CNN that she felt strongly that he should not
come. "I do not welcome this president to my city," said Lynette Lederman.
"He’s the purveyor of hate speech. The hypocritical words that come from
him tell me nothing," Lederman continued. "We have people who stand by
us who believe in values, not just Jewish values, but believe in values,
and those are the not the values of this president, and I do not welcome
him to Pittsburgh."

NBC News reports:

"Former Homeland Security
Secretary Jeh Johnson on Monday called on President Donald Trump to tone
down his rhetoric, as the president escalated his attacks on the media,
blaming the "fake news" for stoking "great anger" in the U.S. Johnson,
who served as Secretary of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama
from 2013 to 2017, told CNN that recent hate crimes, including the massacre
at a Pittsburgh synagogue, "should be a wake-up call to all Americans to
insist that their leaders tone it down and try to restore civility to our
dialogue."

Not possible for our nazi
fuhrer
to do so. How he placates his sick sycophants.

The Washington Post
reports:

"President Trump and his
Republican allies remained defiant Sunday amid allegations from critics
that Trump’s incendiary attacks on political rivals and racially charged
rhetoric on the campaign trail bear some culpability for the climate surrounding
a spate of violence in the United States. Trump, who has faced calls to
tone down his public statements, signaled that he would do no such thing
— berating billionaire liberal activist Tom Steyer, a target of a mail
bomb sent by a Trump supporter, as a “crazed & stumbling lunatic” on
Twitter, after Steyer said on CNN that Trump and the Republican Party have
created an atmosphere of “political violence.” Later Sunday, Trump lashed
out again on Twitter, this time at the media: “The Fake News is doing everything
in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division
and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country.”

Adolf and Benito would
have indeed been proud of their fellow national socialist.

NPR reports:

"Eleven people were killed
on Saturday when a gunman entered Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue and
opened fire on the congregants. The victims ranged in age from 54 to 97;
eight were men, three were women. Two of them were brothers, and two were
a married couple. Chuck Diamond was a rabbi at Tree of Life until about
a year ago, and he remains a member of the community, living just around
the corner from the synagogue. He knew many of the victims. "These are
wonderful people, good souls, who were just coming to synagogue as they
usually did," he told NPR on Sunday. "Synagogue was just getting started
and mostly elderly people who come there are there at the beginning, and
you could count on them every week for coming. ... It's such a crime that
their lives were taken from us." But he said the city's residents are coming
together to support one another after the tragedy. "Pittsburgh," he said,
"is a wonderful community. It's not only a wonderful Jewish community,
it's just a wonderful community."

The Washington Post
reports:

"More than 35,000 people
have signed an open letter to President Trump from the leaders of a Pittsburgh-based
Jewish group who say the president will not be welcome in the city unless
he denounces white nationalism and stops “targeting” minorities after a
mass shooting Saturday at a local synagogue left 11 dead.

"Nevertheless, the White
House announced Trump would travel to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, ignoring the
letter as well as a plea from Pittsburgh’s mayor that the president at
least refrain from visiting “while we are burying the dead.” The first
of the funerals for the 11 shooting victims is expected to take place Tuesday."

The Washington Post
reports:

"A mourning family doesn’t
want to meet him. Top members of his own party declined to join him. The
mayor has explicitly asked him not to come. And yet President Trump plans
to visit this grief-stricken city Tuesday, amid accusations that he and
his administration continue to fuel the anti-Semitism that inspired Saturday’s
massacre inside a synagogue. The president and first lady Melania Trump
are scheduled to arrive in the late afternoon, several hours after the
first funerals are held for the 11 victims of the mass shooting at Tree
of Life synagogue. More than 1,000 people have so far signed up for a demonstration
at the same time — declaring Trump “unwelcome in our city and in our country.”
So has at least one of the victims' families.

No question. Uncommon
valor to stand up to this nazi and what he stands for.

"Congressional leaders
from both parties — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House
Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) — have all
declined invitations to join Trump on his visit, according to three officials
familiar with matter. (McConnell’s office said the Kentucky senator “has
events in the state and was unable to attend.”)

At least some of the top
leadership in our formerly great country remains willing to show some small
semblance of 'judgment.'

"Trump offered to visit
with the family of Daniel Stein, a 71-year-old who had just become a grandfather
when he was gunned down at Tree of Life. Stein’s nephew, Stephen Halle,
said the family declined. It was in part because of the comments Trump
made in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, when he suggested the
synagogue should have had an armed guard. “Everybody feels that they were
inappropriate,” Halle said Tuesday — the same day his uncle was set to
be buried — of Trump’s remarks about security. “He was blaming the community.
“A church, a synagogue, should not be a fortress. It should be an open
welcoming place to feel safe.” The city’s Democratic mayor, Bill Peduto,
will not be appearing with the president, either, according to a spokesman.
Peduto had urged Trump not to visit Pittsburgh until after the funerals
for the victims had concluded, saying “all attention should be on the victims.”
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, a Squirrel Hill resident who
lives half a block away from the synagogue, will not be meeting with the
president, either, his spokeswoman said."

Tell you anything?
Anything at all?

"Tens of thousands of
people have signed an open letter published by a progressive Jewish organization,
Bend the Arc, saying that Trump would not be welcome unless he denounced
white nationalism and stopped “targeting” minorities in his rhetoric and
policies. “For the past three years your words and your policies have emboldened
a growing white nationalist movement,” the letter says. “You yourself called
the murderer evil, but yesterday’s violence is the direct culmination of
your influence. ”

The fascist bastards around
Trump remain hopelessly clueless. The following would be laughable
under other circumstances. Get this:

"The White House woke
up to a new furor on Tuesday morning, as video spread virally from a Monday
evening rally in which Vice President Pence prayed for the synagogue’s
victims with the leader of a “Messianic synagogue” who urges Jews to accept
Jesus as the Messiah — a movement condemned by Jewish leaders as Christian
evangelism in disguise."

"A doctor who treated
victims of the Pittsburgh shooting that left 11 dead and six injured described
the harrowing scene in an interview with CBS News Monday. Dr. Keith Murray
said he was with his three children at a Halloween party when he received
an alert about an active shooter. Murray is the medical director of tactical
EMS at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Dressed in full
SWAT gear, he and his colleague cleared one section of the synagogue before
coming across five bodies. They soon realized one person was still alive,
holding her friend's body. "The fifth one was not moving at the time, but
once we encountered her, we realized that she was shot, she was in shock,
and she was simply holding onto her deceased friend," he told CBS News'
David Begnaud in Pittsburgh."

Imagine living with that
image the rest of one's life.

"I think this was just
four people coming to the synagogue to pray with friends," he continued.
"They were facing forward, looking at the rabbi, and the [gunman] walked
up behind them and just started shooting." Murray said there was an eerie
calm over the entire building. "You are walking into this place of worship
— it is aesthetically beautiful. You have to reconcile that image with
the fact that you are now looking at four dead people," he said. "It is
a scene that you never want to see."

Man's inhumanity to his
fellow man.

"Armed with an AR-15 and
three handguns, Robert Bowers, 46, shot the congregants as he shouted anti-Semitic
slurs, authorities said. Bowers made his first court appearance Monday
and will be back in court Thursday morning. He remains in custody without
bail."

Hard to believe there
were no warning signs. Nothing at all.

"After Murray heard a
knocking sound that turned out to be gunfire, he realized an officer had
been shot on the second floor of the building. "The knocking became more
rapid, more intense, and then it just kind of magnified from there. That
was our officers getting into a gunfight with the individual," he said.
"It was our number one operator in the room. He took the most gunfire.
He went down straight there. One of our guys stepped over him and used
himself as a shield," Murray said, adding that they knew the officer suffered
life-threatening injuries. "He had two gunshots wounds to his arm and multiple
to his lower extremities. He did not look well. We knew that this was going
to go bad, potentially." Murray and the SWAT team were able to safely remove
the wounded officer from the building. He praised the work of his colleagues
and said there's no doubt in his mind that "two people are alive today
because of them."

Indeed. Hopefully,
all will recover. Uncommon valor.

Trump remains hopelessly
clueless. The Washington Post reports:

"A mourning family doesn’t
want to meet him. Leaders of his own party declined to join him. The mayor
has explicitly asked him not to come. Protesters have mobilized. And yet
President Trump visited this grief-stricken city Tuesday, amid accusations
that he and his administration continue to fuel the anti-Semitism that
inspired Saturday’s massacre inside a synagogue. The president and first
lady Melania Trump arrived in Pittsburgh on Tuesday afternoon, not long
after the first funerals began for the 11 victims of the mass shooting
at Tree of Life synagogue. More than 1,300 people have signed up for a
demonstration at the same time — declaring Trump “unwelcome in our city
and in our country.” Congressional leaders from both parties — Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), Senate
Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi (D.-Calif.) — have all declined invitations to join Trump on his
visit, according to officials familiar with matter. (McConnell’s office
said the Kentucky senator “has events in the state and was unable to attend.”)

Gets worse:

"So have relatives of
at least one of the victims. Trump offered to visit with the family of
Daniel Stein, a 71-year-old who had just become a grandfather when he was
gunned down at Tree of Life. Stein’s nephew, Stephen Halle, said the family
declined in part because of the comments Trump made in the immediate aftermath
of the shooting, when he suggested the synagogue should have had an armed
guard. “Everybody feels that they were inappropriate,” Halle said Tuesday.
“He was blaming the community."

One thing for certain.
The community did not want him to visit.

"About an hour before
Trump arrived in the area, more than 100 people had jammed onto a street
corner in Squirrel Hill, the predominantly Jewish neighborhood where the
synagogue is located and many victims lived. The number swelled as Trump’s
visit neared, with some marching through the neighborhood streets and declaring
themselves angry that he would come to their community. "This didn't happen
in a vacuum,"Ardon Shorr said. "There is a growing trend of white nationalism.
And that has been enabled by Trump, who traffics in the kind of conspiracy
theories that we know were foremost in the mind of the shooter last Saturday."

"Shorr added about Trump’s
visit. “He’s not tolerated here, and we didn’t consent to him coming.”
Others gathered to protest echoed Schorr’s sentiments in criticizing Trump
and questioning his visit. “He’s done nothing but stoke the type of fear
and hatred that led to this," said Ben Case, 34. "And he’s coming here
for a photo op and to check it off his list. But we know hes not part of
the solution.” Marchers in Squirrel Hill sat down in the middle of a street
near the synagogue while Trump was in the area, purposely facing away from
him so as to turn their backs on the president."

Quite encouraging to see
people finally standing up to this growing cancer.

"As Trump left Washington
for Pittsburgh, Kara Bernstein was on her way to protests in Squirrel Hill.
Bernstein, who lives near Tree of Life and was at another house of worship
during Saturday’s massacre, went with two friends in part to urge people
to vote. Her second motivation, she emphasized, was speaking out against
Trump. “I personally hold Trump and his rhetoric accountable for the tragedy
that occurred,” she said. She believes his visit is a “distraction from
the grieving.”

CBS News reports:

"Hundreds of protesters
assembled to show their displeasure with Trump's presence, some carrying
signs that said "Hate has No Home in Squirrel Hill" and "Trump Loves Nazis."
As Mr. Trump's motorcade wound through downtown Pittsburgh, some onlookers
greeted the president with downturned thumbs."

Peaceful resistance to
nazism. Need to see far more of it.

"Democratic Pennsylvania
Gov. Tom Wolf said now was not the best time for the president to visit.
Beth Melena, campaign spokeswoman for Wolf, said the governor based his
decision to stay away on input from the victims' families, who told him
they did not want the president to be there on the day their loved ones
were being buried. The first funeral service were held for three victims
Tuesday, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal and his younger brother, David."

The boorish nazi in the
Oval Office did not honor their wishes. Surprised?

"None of the four congressional
leaders who were invited joined the president on the trip. A spokesman
for Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he already had
events in his home state of Kentucky, pushing back on the suggestion that
he declined. Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan's office said he could
not attend on short notice. Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
and Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also opted not to participate."

The Washington Post
reports:

"President Trump visited
a grief-stricken Pittsburgh on Tuesday in a trip meant to unify after tragedy,
but his arrival provoked protests from residents and consternation from
local officials in the aftermath of the synagogue shooting that left 11
people dead. The hastily planned day trip — which the city’s mayor urged
Trump not to make — was executed with no advance public itinerary and without
congressional and local politicians. Some had declined to accompany the
president, and others were not invited."

Clearly, Trump sorely
lacks judgment. Has no class. A boor.

“The sense in the community
is that they didn’t think this was a time for a political photo shoot,”
said Rep. Mike Doyle (D), whose congressional district covers the Squirrel
Hill neighborhood where the synagogue is located. “There are strong feelings
in the community about him and the divisive nature of his rhetoric.” Trump
has faced charges in recent days that his harsh political tone and effort
to stoke public fears about immigrants has fomented a rising right-wing
extremism embraced by the man charged in the synagogue shooting and by
the suspect arrested last week after a series of bombs were mailed to prominent
critics of the president. Trump has pushed back, saying the media is responsible
for the growing tensions across the country."

How? By publishing
the truth? Exposing the Trump nazi for precisely whom and what he
is?

The fascist bastard got
quite a welcoming committee. LOL.

"As the president touched
down in southwestern Pennsylvania on Tuesday, almost 2,000 demonstrators
assembled not far from where some of the shooting’s victims had been buried
that day. The relatives of at least one victim declined to meet with Trump,
pointing to his “inappropriate” remarks immediately after the shooting,
when the president suggested the shooting could have been avoided if the
synagogue had had an armed guard. City officials said they were concerned
about protests, which occurred on the same day as funerals for some of
the victims, and were not involved in planning the visit — learning about
it only when White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced it Monday.
The White House also declined to invite two Democratic officials who represent
the area — Doyle and Sen. Robert J. Casey Jr. “We received no call or any
kind of correspondence,” Doyle said."

Imagine that.

"Trump’s remarks and incendiary
rhetoric in office contributed to the pushback his visit received before
Air Force One touched down. Tens of thousands of people signed an open
letter from a progressive Jewish group based in Pittsburgh saying he would
not be welcome “until you fully denounce white nationalism” and “cease
your assault on immigrants and refugees.” About an hour before Trump arrived,
more than 100 protesters jammed onto a street corner in Squirrel Hill,
the predominantly Jewish neighborhood where the synagogue is located and
many victims lived. “This didn’t happen in a vacuum,” Ardon Shorr said.
“There is a growing trend of white nationalism. And that has been enabled
by Trump, who traffics in the kind of conspiracy theories that we know
were foremost in the mind of the shooter last Saturday.”

Raw nazism.

"Around 4 p.m., nearly
2,000 marchers assembled at Forbes Avenue and Beechwood Boulevard, not
far from where some of Saturday’s victims had been buried. Organizers led
the marches through practice runs of traditional Jewish songs before the
crowd began a slow, solemn march down Squirrel Hill streets. “He refused
to cancel his rally when it would have been the decent thing to cancel
the rally,” said Jonathan Sarney, 72, referring to Trump’s campaign stop
in Murphysboro, Ill., held the same day the shooting occurred. “And now
he’s coming to intrude on the funerals when it’s an indecent thing to do.”

Mark of a nazi, -- boor
and a bore.

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11-2-18

One thing for certain,
the Nazi Right in our formerly great country despises liberal philanthropist
George Soros. Yet, the national socialist, fascist, nazi Koch brothers
get a free pass from these very same goddamned hypocrites. Imagine
that. Interesting double standard. Regardless, consider the
following. NPR reports:

"The U.S. Agency for Global
Media has launched an investigation into an anti-Semitic television segment
attacking George Soros that aired on a federally funded Spanish-language
broadcaster."

"The 15-minute segment,
which Radio and Television Martí broadcast in May, calls the billionaire
philanthropist a "multimillionaire Jew" who uses his profits to "finance
anti-system [political] movements that fill his pockets."

"The video resurfaced
Friday, just days after a package containing an explosive device turned
up at Soros' home in New York — and one day before a gunman opened fire
at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, murdering 11 worshippers in what a local
prosecutor described as a "terrible and unspeakable act of hate." The video
that aired in May "is inconsistent with our professional standards and
ethics," USAGM chief John Lansing said in a statement released Monday."

Then, how the hell did
it make it on air?

"His agency oversees the
Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which directs Radio and Television Martí
and — according to its website — aims "to promote freedom and democracy
by providing the people of Cuba with objective news and information programming."

... Anti-Semitism part
of the national socialist, fascist, nazi Radio and Television Marti agenda?

"Those deemed responsible
for this production will be immediately placed on administrative leave
pending an investigation into their apparent misconduct," Lansing said.
"Disciplinary action appropriate under federal law may then be proposed,
including the potential removal of those responsible, depending on the
outcome of that investigation."

How long will you drag
your feet? When will you take action?

11-2-18

War for the liberation
of Palestine from the Israeli aggressor, sadly, goes on and on. NBC
News reports:

"Israeli warplanes bombed
around 80 targets across the Gaza Strip early Saturday after militants
launched a volley of rockets into Israel. Within hours, a widely reported
truce calmed what looked like a dangerous escalation in violence. Overnight,
explosions rocked the blockaded Palestinian enclave as buildings shook
and flames lit up the night sky. In Israeli towns and communities near
Gaza, warning sirens sounded through the night, sending residents rushing
to bomb shelters. Israeli Air Force said some rockets were intercepted
by Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system. The Islamic Jihad — a militant
group operating in Gaza — claimed responsibility for rocket strikes into
Israel, saying in a statement it "can no longer stand idly" in light of
"continued cold-blooded killing of innocent civilians by the Israeli occupation."

Cowardly fail to financially
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rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

11-2-18

Think the following isn't
a joke? NBC News reports:

"Microsoft announced on
Friday that the company was standing by its decision to bid for “JEDI,”
a U.S. government project aimed at redesigning the digital infrastructure
of the Department of Defense, despite pushback from company employees.
Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, explained the
company’s stance in a blog post. “First, we believe that the people who
defend our country need and deserve our support,” Smith stated. “And second,
to withdraw from this market is to reduce our opportunity to engage in
the public debate about how new technologies can best be used in a responsible
way. We are not going to withdraw from the future. In the most positive
way possible, we are going to work to help shape it.”

Question to be asked is
remarkably simple. How can the military trust Microsoft when their
civilian operating systems are grossly overpriced and buggy? Designed
to abrogate privacy?

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rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

11-2-18

Trump and his henchmen
continue to load the judiciary with Republican national socialists.
Think not? Wake up. NPR reports:

"President Donald Trump
and Senate Republicans are remaking the federal courts in their own image."

Certainly, are.
No question. Right Wing and nazi. Blatant fascists with no
regard for the Constitution, rule of law.

"Prior to the Trump administration,
there was plenty of tit for tat in the escalating partisan wars over judicial
nominations. But these tactics were aimed at blocking nominees. Since President
Trump was sworn in, however, the GOP Senate leadership has moved aggressively
to speed confirmation of new judges, casting aside long-existing practices
and traditions that ensured some consensus in picking the judges who sit
on the federal courts of appeal."

"Gone, for all practical
purposes, is the tradition that prevented action on a judicial nominee
who was not approved by his or her home state senators. Gone is the practice
of not holding a confirmation hearing until the American Bar Association
has completed its professional evaluation of the nominee. Gone is the general
practice of not piling up multiple nominees in one hearing. And now, for
the first time, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding confirmation
hearings during a Senate recess, over the objections of the minority party."

Raw nazism.

"No other Senate committee
has been holding hearings during the current recess. But for judicial nominees,
the Senate confirmation train keeps on running — even though, and likely
because, Senate Democrats can't be there. The Democrats and allied independents
are defending 26 seats in next month's elections, and have to campaign
during the final weeks before the midterms."

Hear the rumble?
An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.
... As the revolution doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight.

"This week, just two senators
— Republicans Orrin Hatch of Utah, who is retiring, and Mike Crapo of Idaho
— showed up at the hearing for two appeals court nominees. The senators
excused the nominees after just 19 minutes, several minutes of which were
consumed by one controversial nominee talking about his wife, parents,
children and even his cat."

"Hatch, who chaired the
Judiciary Committee for eight years, never held a recess hearing for a
federal judge nominee. When asked this week why Republicans went ahead
this time, he said "we have to move ahead and if they're not cooperating
you just go ahead."

Unsustainable. Revolution
doomsday clock striking dangerously close to midnight. Where are
the goddamned Democrats? No excuse for them not to be there at the
hearings. Election or no election.

"Going ahead has yielded
substantial results for the Republicans over the past two years. The GOP-controlled
Senate has confirmed 29 Trump nominees to federal appeals courts, compared
to confirming just two nominees over the last two years of the Obama presidency.
In all, Trump-appointed judges now represent an astonishing one-sixth of
the sitting, active federal appeals court judges in the country."

Republican national socialist,
fascist nazis legislating their outrageously perverse ideological and religious
views from the bench.

"The federal appeals courts
decide cases involving a broad range of issues, from Social Security or
veterans benefit claims to more high-profile cases involving, for example,
voting rights, abortion or religious freedom. For most litigants, these
are the courts of last resort; they decide 27,000 cases each year, compared
to fewer than 100 decided by the Supreme Court."

All in an effort to deny
justice to the bottom and middle class. A concerted, determined exigent
threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"Vermont Sen. Patrick
Leahy, who chaired the Judiciary Committee for ten years while Democrats
were in the majority, is "disgusted" by what he sees as the dismantling
of a long-standing system that was aimed at achieving a limited bipartisan
consensus on judgeships. The new partisan process "is eventually just going
to make the federal courts look not independent but political," he says.
"And that's going to hurt everybody."

This goddamned clueless
Democrat remains all talk, no action. Been in Congress way too long.

Not all Republicans are
national socialists, fascists, nazis:

"Even some Republicans
occasionally express concern. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., voiced some skepticism
last week when questioning 36-year-old Allison Rushing, a member of the
conservative Federalist Society and former Supreme Court clerk for Justice
Clarence Thomas. Rushing has been nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the 4th Circuit, which covers Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia and West Virginia. Kennedy asked Rushing to name some mid-level
and senior partners at her firm whom she admires. When Rushing did so,
Kennedy replied, "I don't mean to offend you but ...Why shouldn't we appoint
them? They've been at it awhile. They've had a little life experience.
They've had disappointments. They've had to pick themselves up and get
back on their feet and keep going. They've experienced a little bit of
life." Kennedy would not say after that hearing whether he would vote to
confirm Rushing."

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

11-2-18

The following is precisely
why we desperately need a single-payer health system. To rein
in bottomless provider greed. If government does not do so, no
one else will. This system is now zero-sum, winner-take-all.
Greed rules. NPR reports:

"Janet Winston had a rash
that wouldn't go away. The English professor from Eureka, Calif., always
had been sensitive to ingredients in skin creams and cosmetics. This time,
however, the antifungal cream she was prescribed to treat her persistent
rash seemed to make things worse. Was she allergic to that, too? Winston,
56, who works at Humboldt State University, found out the dermatologist
in her rural Northern California town was booked months in advance. So,
as Winston often does for specialized treatment, she turned to Stanford
Health Care, a nearly six-hour drive south. She hoped to finally clear
up her rash and learn what else she might be allergic to."

Gouged.

"Her Stanford-affiliated
doctor had warned her that the extensive allergy skin-patch testing she
needed might be expensive, Winston said, but she wasn't too worried. After
all, Stanford was an in-network provider for her insurer — and her insurance,
one of her benefits as an employee of the state of California, always had
been reliable. Then the bill came.

"Patient: Janet Winston,
56, of Eureka, Calif., English professor at Humboldt State University

"Total bill: $48,329,
including $848 for the time Winston spent with her doctor. Winston's health
insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, paid Stanford a negotiated rate of $11,376.47.
Stanford billed Winston $3,103.73 as her 20 percent share of the negotiated
rate.

Republican national socialists,
nazis ludicrously claim there is a 'free' market. A 'free' market
that supposedly reins this in. Delusional horse shit. The market
is owned, operated, and manipulated by those with the wealth to do so.
As communism failed some 25 years ago, so too is unbridled laissez-faire
capitalism that is either virtually unregulated or extremely poorly regulated.

"Medical billing analysts
told Kaiser Health News that Stanford's charges for Winston's allergy patch
test appeared excessive. They were surprised to hear that Winston's insurer,
Anthem Blue Cross, paid Stanford more than $11,000 for the treatment. Stanford's
list price, however, is $399 per allergen. "That charge is astronomical
and nuts," said Margaret Skurka, a retired professor of health informatics
at Indiana University and a medical coding and billing consultant who advises
hospitals and providers. She reviewed Winston's bill. The "usual, customary
and reasonable" charge for testing a single allergen in the high-cost San
Francisco Bay Area is about $35, said Michael Arrigo, a San Francisco-based
medical billing expert witness who also reviewed Winston's bill. "The data
seems pretty conclusive that the charges in this case are inflated."

The analysis goes on and
on, but you get the point, don't you? If government fails to regulate,
this shit continues unabated. Especially, since the corporate management
suite owns its bought and paid for shills in government. Not
sustainable. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded
second American revolution catastrophically looming.

Cowardly fail to financially
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rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

11-2-18

Delusionally believe Republicans
are not actively denying non-Republican voters the right to vote?
NPR reports:

"Former President Jimmy
Carter has personally urged the Republican candidate for governor in Georgia
to resign from his position overseeing the state's elections. Carter lodged
his appeal to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp in a letter dated last
Monday and first obtained by The Associated Press. The contents of the
letter were confirmed to NPR by a spokesperson for the Carter Center, the
former president's organization devoted partly to monitoring democratic
elections across the world. In his letter to Kemp, Carter said it was his
decades of experience assisting elections abroad that persuaded him to
wade into the bitter dispute now roiling the Georgia gubernatorial race.
Kemp has been under fire for deciding to purge tens of thousands of voters
from the voter rolls — months after declaring his intent to run for governor."

To abrogate the right
of non-GOP voters to vote.

"In Georgia's upcoming
gubernatorial election, popular confidence is threatened not only by the
undeniable racial discrimination of the past and the serious questions
that the federal courts have raised about the security of Georgia's voting
machines, but also because you are now overseeing the election in which
you are a candidate," wrote Carter, who served as Democratic governor of
Georgia himself before winning the presidency in 1976. "This runs counter
to the most fundamental principle of democratic elections — that the electoral
process be managed by an independent and impartial election authority."
Carter is far from the only prominent figure to raise concerns about Kemp's
role as both candidate and referee in next week's election — and last year's
voter purge is not the only move that has gotten Kemp embroiled in controversy."

Direct threat to a democratic
republic.

"An APM Reports investigation
found that removals have spiked during Kemp's tenure overseeing Georgia's
election process. More than 1.6 million names were removed from the state's
rolls in the past decade, including his eight years in office. And a half-dozen
civil rights groups recently sued the secretary of state over the delay
of some 53,000 voter registration applications, which his office has placed
on hold citing questions about the applicants' citizenship status. According
to the AP, nearly 70 percent of those pending registrations came from African-Americans.
Kemp's Democratic opponent, Stacey Abrams, is seeking to become the first
black woman governor in U.S. history. "This protocol will continue to have
a discriminatory impact on African-American, Latino and Asian-American
applicants," the groups alleged in their complaint, "and will continue
to impose severe burdens on voting-eligible Georgians' fundamental right
to vote that are not justified by any rational or compelling state interest."

Great evil.

"Carter didn't get too
deep into specifics in his brief personal appeal to Kemp. Rather, the former
president laid out his argument as a broad plea to ensure the stability
of Georgia's electoral process. "In order to foster voter confidence in
the upcoming election, which will be especially important if the race ends
up very close, I urge you to step aside and hand over to a neutral authority
the responsibility of overseeing the governor's election," Carter said.
"This would not address every concern, but it would be a sign that you
recognize the importance of this key democratic principle and want to ensure
the confidence of our citizens in the outcome."

Raw nazism.

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rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
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11-2-18

More lies. The
Washington Post reports:

"President Trump on Monday
accused Andrew Gillum, the Democratic candidate for governor of Florida,
of being a “thief,” without citing any evidence. The president made the
accusation in a tweet in which he sought to contrast the credentials of
the Republican candidate he has endorsed, former congressman Ron DeSantis,
and Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee.

“In Florida there is a
choice between a Harvard/Yale educated man named @RonDeSantisFL who has
been a great Congressman and will be a great Governor - and a Dem who is
a thief and who is Mayor of poorly run Tallahassee, said to be one of the
most corrupt cities in the Country! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2018"

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11-2-18

Once again, the national
socialist, fascist, nazi in the Oval Office has again shown his true colors.
The
Washington Post reports:

"President Trump is vowing
to sign an executive order that would seek to end the right to U.S. citizenship
for children born in the United States to noncitizens, a move most legal
experts say runs afoul of the Constitution."

That's right. No
question. The 14th Amendment.

"The action, which Trump
previewed in a television clip broadcast Tuesday, would be the most aggressive
by a president elected to office pledging to take a hard line on immigration,
an issue he has revived in advance of next week’s midterm elections."

What it is remains no
more than an outrageously unconstitutional usurpation of dictatorial power
the fascist son of a bitch in the Oval Office does not enjoy.

“We’re the only country
in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially
a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits,”
Trump said during an interview with Axios scheduled to air as part of a
new HBO series starting this weekend. “It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous.
And it has to end.”

The 'president' is a liar.
A congenital liar. The United States is not the only country
that has this provision.

"In fact, more than 30
countries, including Canada and Mexico, have similar policies."

Trump remains out of touch,
achingly clueless, blinded by fascism. To say nothing of narcissism
and bigotry. Another Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini.

"Whether the contemplated
move is legal, Trump seemed to welcome the controversy his comments ignited.
The White House has been intent on stoking a debate over immigration as
a way to motivate Trump’s base to turn out for midterm elections in which
Republicans risk losing the House."

Should this clueless son
of a bitch follow through, would immediately be challenged in court.
Would likely quickly generate a constitutional crisis.

"In recent weeks, Trump
has also repeatedly called attention to a migrant caravan making its way
toward the U.S.-Mexico border, invoking it as a symbol of what he sees
as wrong with the U.S. immigration system and blaming Democrats for a lack
of action."

This lunatic needs to
look in the mirror. So do fellow Republicans. This problem
dates back at least 38 years to the reign of the Reagan nazi. Forget?
Iran-Conta. Ill-advised material and financial support by nazis in
the Republican Party of Extreme Right fascist dictatorships in Latin America.
Now, the chickens are finally coming home to roost.

... And the Trump nazi
is blaming useless, worthless Democrats for a fiasco national socialist,
fascist Republicans are directly responsible for. LOL. No personal
responsibility from nazis in the Republican Party who themselves hypocritically
accuse Democrats and Independents of doing precisely the same. Irony?
Striking.
Laughable.

"Trump, who has long decried
“anchor babies,” said he has discussed ending birthright citizenship with
his legal counsel and believes it can be accomplished with executive action,
a view at odds with the opinions of most legal scholars. “It was always
told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You
don’t,” Trump told Axios."

What nazi dictator does,
right,
Mr. 'President?'

"When told that view is
disputed, Trump asserted: “You can definitely do it with an act of Congress.
But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order.”

This fascist piece of
human excrement has repeatedly abrogated his oath of office to uphold the
United States Constitution, rule of law. A traitor. A national
socialist, fascist, nazi in the mold of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini.

“It’s in the process.
It’ll happen ... with an executive order,” he said, without offering a
time frame."

This fascist lunatic lives
in his own reality.

"Trump’s plans were blasted
by immigrants-rights activists, including Omar Jadwat, director of the
ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. “The president cannot erase the Constitution
with an executive order,” Jadwat said. “This is a transparent and blatantly
unconstitutional attempt to sow division and fan the flames of anti-immigrant
hatred in the days ahead of the midterms.”

Indeed, it is. We
have a traitor occupying the Oval Office. Both major political parties
in Congress need to step up. Rise to the occasion.

"Cristóbal J. Alex,
president of the Latino Victory Project, called Trump’s comments “a dangerous
political stunt.” “This is Trump at his most vile and un-American,” Alex
said."

It is. No more than
treason. Congress must step up. The 'president' presents an
exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and
liberties.

"An executive order would
be certain to spark a constitutional debate about the meaning of the 14th
Amendment. It reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States
and of the State wherein they reside.”

The 14th Amendment is
abundantly clear. Time for Congress to step up. Rein in the
nazi.

"In the Axios interview,
Trump incorrectly asserted that the United States is the only country that
offers birthright citizenship. NumbersUSA, a group that favors reduced
immigration, has compiled a list that shows 33 nations grant citizenship
to anyone born within their borders. The list includes Canada, Mexico,
Brazil, Argentina and most other countries in Central and South America.
The United States and Canada are the only two “developed” countries, as
defined by the International Monetary Fund, that have unrestricted birthright
citizenship laws."

Not all Republicans are
onboard with the Trump nazi and his henchmen:

"Among those criticizing
Trump’s planned executive order ending birthright citizenship was conservative
commentator Bill Kristol, editor at large of the Weekly Standard. “The
shrinking caravan of refugees isn’t a threat to the country or the constitutional
order,” he wrote on Twitter. “A president who tries to end birthright citizenship
by executive order is.”

He's right. Time
for other patriotic Republicans to wake up, smell the coffee, rein in their
lunatic nazi fuhrer.

NPR reports:

"... Trump's idea to revoke
birthright citizenship is "ill-timed" and misguided, says Kristen Clarke,
the executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law. "Aside from being unconstitutional, such an executive order would
exacerbate racial tensions, exploit fears and drive further polarization
across the country at a moment that calls for the promotion of unity and
inclusion," Clarke said. Jess Morales Rocketto, whose Families Belong Together
group has fought the Trump administration's family separation policy along
the U.S.-Mexico border, was more blunt. "This is ethnic cleansing," Rocketto
said. "This is an attempt to whiteout America's history and heritage as
a nation of immigrants. And it's unconstitutional."

Raw nazism.

AMENDMENT XIV

Passed by Congress June
13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized
in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens
of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities
of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person
of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to
any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

NBC News reports:

"President Donald Trump
on Wednesday slammed House Speaker Paul Ryan for opposing his plan to sign
an executive order that would end birthright citizenship, ripping the Wisconsin
Republican as someone who knows "nothing about" the issue."

Trump does?
LOL.

"Paul Ryan should be focusing
on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions on Birthright Citizenship,
something he knows nothing about!" Trump tweeted. "Our new Republican Majority
will work on this, Closing the Immigration Loopholes and Securing our Border!”
he added, six days before the midterm elections Tuesday. A spokesperson
for Ryan, who is not seeking reelection, did not immediately respond to
questions from NBC News about Trump’s latest remarks about him.

"Paul Ryan should be focusing
on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions on Birthright Citizenship,
something he knows nothing about! Our new Republican Majority will work
on this, Closing the Immigration Loopholes and Securing our Border!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
October 31, 2018"

Discord in GOP paradise?

"Trump's lashing out came
just one day after Ryan had rejected comments made by Trump about wanting
to sign an executive order that would end birthright citizenship for the
children of many immigrants to the U.S. "You obviously cannot do that.
You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order," Ryan, who
rarely breaks with the president, told WVLK radio. "We didn't like it when
Obama tried changing immigration laws via executive action, and obviously
as conservatives, we believe in the Constitution." "I'm a believer in following
the plain text of the Constitution, and I think in this case, the 14th
Amendment's pretty clear, and that would involve a very very lengthy Constitutional
process," Ryan said Tuesday. "I believe in interpreting the Constitution
as its written, and that means you can't do something like this via executive
order."

Clearly and fortunately,
not all Republicans are nazis.

"Trump's executive order,
if and when it is signed, will almost certainly face legal challenges due
to the fact that birthright citizenship is rooted in the interpretation
of a constitutional amendment. The "Citizenship Clause" of the 14th Amendment
states that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States
and of the State wherein they reside." Many legal scholars believe the
issue was settled by an 1898 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court involving
a man born in the United States to Chinese parents who lived here legally."

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11-2-18

Further proof positive
of Trump's national socialism. ABC News reports:

"President Trump called
Brazil's new conservative president to congratulate the controversial leader
who has praised the country's former military dictatorship and made disparaging
remarks about women, Afro-Brazilians, and the LGBT community. Jair Bolsonaro,
who won election on Sunday in a run-off vote, ran on a campaign similar
to Trump's, tapping into the country's deep dissatisfaction with economic
stagnation, years of corruption, and rising violence. With an 11 percentage
point victory, he emerged as the clear winner despite those incendiary
remarks of the past."

Exactly, how Adolf Hitler
rose to power. Became German Chancellor in 1933.

"But it's also because
of those comments that he was sometimes referred to as "Trump of the Tropics"
– a comparison that he embraced. Trump tweeted on Monday that the two leaders
had "a very good conversation" when they spoke Sunday night. "We agreed
that Brazil and the United States will work closely together on Trade,
Military and everything else! Excellent call, wished him congrats!" the
president said."

The 'president' of the
United States has traitorously, treacherously, treasonously praised a fellow
national socialist, fascist, nazi who has risen to power in Brazil.

"The administration embraced
Bolsonaro on Monday, with White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders saying,
"We value our longstanding relationship with Brazil. We want to be able
to continue to work with them." The State Department added that the U.S.
"look[s] forward to working with President-elect Bolsonaro in the coming
years," in areas of mutual concern "to promote security, democracy, economic
prosperity, and human rights."

Direct opposite is the
truth. Both men have zero interest in democracy, human rights.
None at all.

"But there are fears from
human rights groups that the country will see a democratic decline under
Bolsonaro, who's been criticized as "a far-right, gun-loving, media-baiting
hyper-nationalist" by former World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu, now
a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institute. It's likely inevitable
that his time in office will see "human rights violations and retrenchment
of social and environmental policies," according to Elizabeth Leeds, a
senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America."

Precisely, what's happening
here in our formerly great country.

"As Bolsonaro's victory
became more likely, "An atmosphere of permissiveness towards intolerance,
hate crimes, and violation of electoral laws has permeated the country,"
Leeds wrote Sunday. "Whether Bolsonaro will temper his remarks and his
policies if elected remains to be seen, but his growing popularity has
unleashed an unprecedented number of hate crimes and violence throughout
the country."

Precisely, what's happening
here in the United States.

"He's called for laxer
gun ownership laws and giving police greater license to kill suspected
criminals. He's also talked fondly of Brazil's military dictatorship, which
ruled the country with brutality from 1964 to 1985, saying it should have
killed more dissidents instead of jailing them. "

A fascist police-state,
just as we now have right here, -- quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's
Fourth
Reich.

"More recently during
the campaign, he's pledged to uphold democracy."

Day is night, night is
day, and shit smells perversely sweet in a fascist police-state.
All ass backwards. As right here, right now in Nazi America.

"But minority groups fear
that that won't extend to them. Bolsonaro's history of disparaging remarks
is more widely known, including saying he would not love a gay son and
would rather he died and telling a fellow member of Congress, a woman,
"I would never rape you because you do not deserve it."

Wake up.

"In fact, last month,
Brazil's public prosecutor charged Bolsonaro with inciting discrimination
against black people, indigenous people, women, and gays with his public
comments, according to Reuters. Those comments may have also made Bolsonaro
more popular, casting an image of a rebel and an outsider – which was popular
in a country sick of the status quo."

Just like what's happening
right here, right now, in Nazi America. Wake up.

Trump presents an exigent
threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
Delusionally believe at some point in the future Trump won't abrogate the
Second Amendment? Wake up. Forget? -- Indeed,
the last best defense to out of control, murderous government as wisely
intended by the Founders. As the revolution doomsday clock strikes
ever closer to midnight. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution
catastrophically looming. ... Hear the rumble?

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11-2-18

Not all Republicans are
national socialist, fascist jackasses. A few do stand tall. The
Washington Post reports:

"The chairman of the House
Republican campaign arm on Tuesday condemned recent remarks made by Rep.
Steve King (R-Iowa) on white nationalism, becoming the highest-profile
GOP leader to rebuke the lawmaker to date."

Hat's off.
Did the right thing.

"In a tweet Tuesday afternoon,
Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), chairman of the National Republican Congressional
Committee, said that King’s “recent comments, actions, and retweets are
completely inappropriate.” “We must stand up against white supremacy and
hate in all forms, and I strongly condemn this behavior,” Stivers said
in the tweet.

"Congressman
Steve King’s recent comments, actions, and retweets are completely inappropriate.
We must stand up against white supremacy and hate in all forms, and I strongly
condemn this behavior. —
Steve Stivers (@RepSteveStivers) October 30, 2018"

Republicans need to stand
up en masse. Racism, among other issues, is tearing our formerly
great country apart. This needs to change.

"Stivers’s remarks set
him apart from the top three House Republican leaders — Speaker Paul D.
Ryan (Wis.), Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Majority Whip
Steve Scalise (La.) — all of whom have declined to criticize King in recent
weeks."

Uncommon valor displayed
by Mr. Stivers. Especially, in the current political climate.

"King’s Democratic opponent,
J.D. Scholten, said he welcomed Stivers’s comments. “Last week I issued
a challenge for at least one Republican elected official to condemn @SteveKingIA’s
recent behavior. I applaud @RepSteveStivers, Chair of the NRCC. Respect,”
Scholten said in a tweet. King has a long history of incendiary remarks
on race and immigration throughout his 16 years in Congress. Last year,
King was widely criticized after he declared in a tweet that he agreed
with far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders that “our civilization” cannot
be restored “with somebody else’s babies.”

Racist nazis like King
present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties.

NBC News reports:

"Corporate donors continue
to pull their financial support for controversial Republican Rep. Steve
King of Iowa due to the eight-term congressman's inflammatory comments,
especially in light of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre that left 11 people
dead. Dairy giant Land O' Lakes announced Tuesday it was axing financial
contributions to the political campaign for King — up for re-election on
Nov. 6 — who has voiced support for white nationalism and retweeted Nazi
propaganda. Amid calls on social media to boycott the company's products,
Nestlé-owned pet food maker Purina tweeted on Tuesday that it would
no longer support King, adding that his “recent statements are in conflict
with our values.” Technology giant Intel, which was working with King on
legislation for IP theft protection, said that after reviewing the congressman’s
public statements, the company "determined that they conflict with Intel
values. As a result, we are no longer donating to his campaigns." Now,
other corporate donors, including AT&T and Tyson Foods, are being pressured
to act.

The chickens are finally
coming home to roost. About time.

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11-2-18

Be interesting to see
if the following grows legs, -- so to speak. NPR reports:

"The office of Justice
Department special counsel Robert Mueller has notified the FBI about an
alleged scheme to discredit Mueller that apparently backfired on Tuesday,
a spokesman confirmed. News organizations including NPR have received information
about claims related to the alleged scheme. Reporters have so far not been
able to verify them. When the special counsel's office became aware of
them last week, it alerted the FBI, said spokesman Peter Carr. The FBI
declined
to comment. At least two conservative media personalities appeared linked
to an apparent hoax that may have been designed to ensnare Washington reporters,
if not also cause political damage to Mueller."

None of this has been
independently confirmed. The FBI, however, has the resources to quickly
lay it to rest one way or the other. Hopefully, will do so.

"The story begins in mid-October,
when an unsolicited email from a Gmail address popped into the inboxes
of journalists around the capital city, including one used by NPR. In the
message, a person identifying herself as a woman from Florida describes
having been contacted out of the blue by someone with detailed knowledge
about her work history and her personal finances. That person, according
to the account, asks her to establish contact over an encrypted messaging
application and then, in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars, to
make false but potentially politically damaging misconduct claims against
Mueller."

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11-2-18

Another example of sick
religion. This time in Pakistan. NPR reports:

"Pakistan's Supreme Court
on Wednesday announced the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who
was convicted and sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy in a case that
has roiled the country. In the courtroom, it took less a minute for the
Chief Justice, Saqib Nisar, to upturn a series of legal rulings that had
kept Bibi on death row for eight years. In terse remarks to the hushed,
packed courtroom, he said that Bibi's conviction and sentence had been
voided. In a 56-page verdict issued after the ruling, the three-judge bench
appeared to side with Bibi's advocates. They have maintained that the case
against the 51-year-old illiterate farmhand was built around a grievance
by her fellow Muslim workers who appeared angry that she might drink from
the same vessel as them. She was ordered by a local landlord to bring water
to the women on a day while they were picking berries. The judges cited
the Qur'an, Islamic scholars and Shakespeare in their impassioned verdict,
arguing that blasphemy allegations had led to vigilante killings. In Bibi's
case, they wrote, her accusers had not conclusively proven her guilt. "She
appears to be a person, in the words of Shakespeare's King Lear, 'more
sinned against than sinning,'" the judges said."

Heroic action by the court.
Could get the justices killed. Think the same won't eventually happen
here as our formerly great country continues to nazify?

"Shortly after the verdict
was announced, security forces shut down access to the sweeping boulevards
leading to the Supreme Court to prevent demonstrators from reaching the
area. Cities around Pakistan emptied out as merchants shuttered their shops
and followers of an extremist religious group poured into the streets to
mount angry demonstrations. They demanded Bibi be killed, regardless of
the verdict. They said believing Muslims should punish the Supreme Court
judges for ruling against Islam."

Delusionally believe the
same couldn't eventually happen here? Handwriting's already on the
wall under the Trump nazi and his henchmen. Sick religion at the heart
of all of it. Bastardization of Scripture by the hopelessly psychotic.

"This decision is against
the wishes of the entire Muslim community," warned protester Mohammed Fayyaz.
"They are playing with fire." A leader of the group, known as Tehreek-e-Labaik,
or TLP, called for the judges to be killed."

Wake up.
This cancer is spreading throughout the world. Think we're immune?
As the insanity in Washington continues unabated.

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10-26-18

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

"Few police departments
are better at confiscating illegal guns than Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan
Police Department. Every day, teams of officers, often driving unmarked
cars, scour the streets looking for people who might be carrying a firearm.
These tactics have helped D.C. police seize thousands of illegal weapons.
The aggressive search for guns has come with a cost, however — residents
in heavily patrolled neighborhoods say they feel targeted."

Because they are.
U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Fourth Amendment mean shit squat to
these nazi storm troopers.

"Additionally, many suspects
charged with gun possession ultimately walk free, according to an analysis
of court documents by WAMU and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at
American University, leading to more questions about the usefulness of
the tactic. In D.C.'s most violent neighborhoods, officers frequently stop
pedestrians and pull cars over, searching for illegal guns."

These criminal jackbooted
bastards do it without probable cause as required by the Fourth Amendment.
An illegal search.

"For many longtime residents,
these officers have an unofficial name: the "jump-outs." "It's normal in
my neighborhood for the police to stop-and-frisk," M.B. Cottingham says.
"On this particular day, it was my turn." Cottingham, 39, was hanging out
outside his aunt's house in Southwest D.C. last September when several
police officers showed up. "'Do we have any guns?' That's the first thing
they said," Cottingham says. One of the officers asked Cottingham if he'd
consent to a pat-down. Cottingham agreed. What happened next was captured
on a cellphone video. It shows an officer repeatedly patting down Cottingham's
crotch area."

Called sexual assault
perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastard in blue.

Guess what?

"Police didn't find a
gun."

Imagine that. Couldn't
be, could it? Did the piece of jackbooted shit get his cookies off
committing sexual assault?

"It's not easy to just
hand over your manhood like that. It's not easy at all," Cottingham says.
"But what can I do?" Cottingham and the ACLU of D.C. are now suing the
officer who searched him."

Stick it as hard as you
can to the bastard.

"Although D.C. police
didn't find a gun on Cottingham, they do take a lot of guns off the streets."

So what? Ends don't
justify the means. How many innocent unarmed people have been abused
by these jackbooted pieces of shit? How many?

"But those gun seizures
and arrests are just part of the story, says Jim Trainum, a former homicide
detective with the D.C. police. He now works at a Washington think tank
that promotes constitutional policing, which puts an emphasis on protecting
citizens' civil liberties in order to promote trust and cooperation with
law enforcement. "Everybody looks at the arrests; everybody you know focuses
on all of that," Trainum says. "Look at the numbers behind it: How many
cases get dismissed? How many cases end up in a conviction?" Police don't
track that for illegal gun cases. And neither do prosecutors."

Imagine that. Convenient,
isn't it?

The following? Absolute
horse shit.

"Stop and frisk is a good
tool, but we've taken it and abused it over the years."

Without probable cause,
it's a violation of the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable
search and seizure.

Ultimately, it's not successful.
Get this:

"An investigation by WAMU
and the Investigative Reporting Workshop analyzed nearly 500 affidavits
from 2010-2015 in cases where MPD officers had arrested suspects for illegal
gun possession. Nearly 4 in 10 of these cases ended up getting dismissed
in court."

Along with that, police
lose the trust of the innocent public they're f--king over.

"Jim Trainum wasn't surprised
by this statistic. "Stop and frisk is a good tool, but we've taken it and
abused it over the years," Trainum says. "So that is just another tool
that we manipulate in order to get the stats, to get the guns off the street."
Trainum says that too often, police stop and frisk residents without legal
justification. In order to legally stop and temporarily detain someone,
police must have "reasonable suspicion" the person has engaged in criminal
activity or is about to. If they don't — or can't prove it in court — the
case can get dismissed in court."

Needs to be. Then,
sue the living shit out of the bastards in blue, the department, and government
agency responsible.

"Assistant D.C. Police
Chief Robert Contee says court cases can get derailed for all kinds of
reasons, and that prosecutors are the ones who decide what cases to pursue.
"We are out here to get illegal guns. It's not to violate anyone's rights
or have a community uproar. That's not our intent," Contee says."

Horse shit. The
actions of your jackbooted thugs scream otherwise, Chief. When your
bastards have no probable cause, they have no business engaging in stop
and frisk. Quite true, your bastards won't be removing as many illegal
weapons off the street. Some will, indeed, die as a result of these
weapons remaining on the street. The price of liberty.
Something you and your jackbooted bastards can't seem to grasp:

"Contee is concerned about
the high number of gun possession cases that are dismissed, but says there
are bigger issues at play. "What I know is that that firearm that's been
recovered off that street, it won't take the life of somebody out here,"
Contee says. Contee wasn't the only official to argue that, even if the
charges don't stick, taking guns off the streets makes the community safer."

Here's the fallacy of
that thinking:

"But there are other consequences.
Young black men say they feel targeted and harassed by these stops. To
avoid being frisked, they say they lift up their shirts when police drive
by to show they don't have a gun in their waistband. This summer, angry
and exasperated residents testified at a D.C. Council hearing about police
tactics in the city's predominantly African-American neighborhoods. Many
shared stories of getting stopped on the street or pulled over in their
car by police who were looking for guns. One man who spoke out identified
himself by only his initials because of concerns about police retaliation.
D.R. summed it up this way: "They look at everyone in the community like
villains."

This destroys public trust
in law enforcement. Costs society far more in the long run when the
public won't step up and provide police with desperately needed crime information.
Why? Wake up. They don't trust the criminal jackbooted
bastards in blue. They know we're living in a fascist police-state
quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"In some cases, police
wrote the suspect appeared "nervous" when they saw the cops; or they crossed
the street; or they ran; or they wore a heavy jacket in warm weather; or
they held their pants a certain way while walking."

They stupidly run
because they're terrified of your criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.
Innocent, unarmed people are routinely murdered by the police all over
our formerly great country. Clearly, Chief, you're too goddamned
stupid to understand this. When they run, you and your bastards take
it as carte blanche to murder them.

"Assistant Police Chief
Contee said police know what they're doing. As proof, he points to the
fact that the incidents end with police confiscating illegal guns."

Do so unconstitutionally.
Can't seem to grasp the fact the ends do not justify the means. Precisely,
why an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms.
Too
deaf, dumb, and stupid to hear the rumble?

"There's certain things
that as a law enforcement officer that my eyes are trained to see," Contee
says. "And if that behavior that I see is consistent with the person who's
carrying a gun, I'm going to stop that individual."

"Trainum, the former D.C.
detective, says this aggressive search for guns may work in the short term,
but over time, it builds resentment. "Once we start cutting corners, to
make that stat, get that arrest, that's when you lose the trust of the
community," Trainum says. And, he adds, if that happens, the job of the
police gets even harder. When that trust is lost, witnesses go silent,
murders go unsolved, and the criminal with a gun is often back out on the
street. So far this year, shootings have driven the homicide rate in D.C.
up 40 percent."

Can't confuse the nazi
element with the truth. Too damned aggressively stupid. The
truth remains we cannot live without police, nor can we live with them.
If this doesn't change, could spark an unwanted dreaded revolution.

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10-26-18

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

"It was July 2014 when
Eric Garner died after a violent struggle with New York City police on
a Staten Island street, an encounter captured on video and replayed worldwide.
When a local grand jury declined to indict any police officers, federal
authorities announced in December 2014 that they would launch their own
civil rights investigation. Nearly four years later, no decision has been
made on whether to file charges. “It’s a horror show,” said Jonathan C.
Moore, the Garner family’s lawyer. “The family’s very frustrated.”

The federal government
protects these murderous criminals in uniform.

"In November 2017, Bijan
Ghaisar died after being shot by two U.S. Park Police officers in Fairfax
County, Va., an episode also captured on video. The FBI and the Civil Rights
Division of the Justice Department took over the case within three days.
As the first anniversary of that killing approaches, the names of the officers
and an explanation of their actions have been withheld by federal authorities.
The Ghaisar family has not been told where the investigation stands."

"Justice Department investigations
into sworn law enforcement officers — police, jail guards and sheriff’s
deputies — often take years. An examination by The Washington Post of more
than 50 recent civil rights cases filed by federal prosecutors against
such officers found an average of slightly more than three years elapsed
from the day of the event to the day that charges were filed. The cases
were all the subject of Justice Department news releases in the past year
announcing either charges or a conviction in a federal prosecution of civil
rights violations “under color of law.” Those are only the cases with charges
filed. A study of more than 13,000 misconduct cases submitted to the Justice
Department over 20 years, conducted by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in
2016, found that no charges were filed in 96 percent of them."

Convenient, isn't it,
Sheriff? No foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the
criminal element presents a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil
and constitutional rights and liberties than all branches and levels of
government, -- including law enforcement.

Corruption within law
enforcement remains an existential threat to life, liberty, all civil and
constitutional rights and liberties. So what else is new? ...
Right,
Bill? Same old duplicitous, aggressively stupid shit occurs right
here in Nazi Llano County. ... Doesn't it, Sheriff?

Think it'll change any
time soon? Don't hold your breath, readers. Not how things
work in Nazi America, right, Sheriff? Highly reminiscent
of how your goons operate though, isn't it, Bill? Forget?
'Stupid is as stupid does.' F--ked up is f--ked up no matter where,
no matter how. Problem throughout all law enforcement.

Including right here in
Nazi Llano County, right, Sheriff? Too many officers clearly
have their heads securely lodged where the sun seldom shines. Egregious
insanity continues to be perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards
in blue. Ongoing issue. All over our formerly great country.

Not just in Dallas as
in the Guyger case, but all over the nation. No end to it.
Surprised? Why? In today's increasingly national socialist
climate anything goes, right, Bill? Live in a de facto fascist
police-state, quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's
Fourth Reich.
Certainly, a problem here in Nazi Llano County,
isn't it, Sheriff?
Your goons, however, aren't held accountable when they egregiously f--k
up. Ever.

Equally pointedly, why
hasn't Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764 been held criminally
accountable for egregious abuse of power involving denial of property rights
to a Kingsland property owner? To say nothing of consequent resultant
physical damage done to a motor home on that property.

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10-26-18

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

Once again, the 'President's'
acting stupid. Out of control. The Washington Post reports:

"The Trump administration’s
struggles to curtail illegal immigration have exposed a deep rift among
the president and his top advisers, one that could lead to changes in the
Cabinet and undermine the government’s response to a record surge of migrant
families at the southern border."

'Stupid is as stupid
does.' Not all his advisors buy his bullshit. Know how
dangerous it is.

"Even as President Trump
continues to consider immigration to be a political winner next month in
helping turn out his conservative base for the midterm elections, tensions
in the West Wing have reached a boiling point. A profane shouting match
over immigration this week among top aides prompted Chief of Staff John
F. Kelly to storm out of the White House and marked the culmination of
weeks of mounting anxiety, several senior administration officials said."

This government is no
longer stable. Certainly, not with a lunatic narcissist fuhrer
at the helm.

"Trump’s own escalating
frustration has led him to excoriate aides for not taking more aggressive
actions and to offer his own ideas, officials said. He has ruminated this
week over the possibility of sending more soldiers to the border, even
though thousands of National Guard troops have been deployed there since
April with no evidence of a deterrent effect."

Trump is no executive.
His father was. Financed this son of a bitch. Bailed him out
when things went south. So did taxpayers.

"In the summer, the president
was so upset by the border numbers that he proposed sealing the entire
1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border, including shuttering legal ports of entry,
blocking trade flows and halting tourism and travel, according to the senior
administration officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss
sensitive internal deliberations."

Our nazi fuhrer
does not have the legal authority to do so. While this bastard considers
himself a dictator, the President of the United States is constitutionally
NOT a dictator. Has to follow the United States Constitution Article
II.

“Close the whole thing!”
Trump demanded at one point during an Oval Office meeting, the officials
said. He was talked out of it by advisers who highlighted the effect such
a measure would have on more than $600 billion in U.S.-Mexico annual trade,
as well as the potential damage to bilateral relations, according to the
officials."

Posse Commitatus forbids
the use of the United States Military to enforce the law.

Here is the problem for
the charlatan currently occupying the Oval Office:

"Experts said the White
House is straining under the same political dilemma that past administrations
encountered in trying to manage the massive U.S. immigration system despite
Congress’s inability to strike a comprehensive legislative reform package.
Trump is hitting the limits of what he is legally able to do through executive
authority, they said, and the United States has relatively few tools to
deal with the gang violence, poverty and hunger propelling a mass exodus
of Central American migrant families over the past five years."

Think the United States
is not responsible for much of this havoc? All those years of supporting
Extreme Right dictatorships that oppressed their people. The idiots
in the White House delusionally believed these regimes were somehow, some
way better than the Marxist communist regimes. Forget? End
result of both extremes is remarkably similar. No clue?

"White House officials
have sought to play down the tensions. After news broke Thursday about
the squabble just outside the Oval Office between Kelly and national security
adviser John Bolton over the performance of Homeland Security Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen, press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement saying
Bolton and Nielsen had patched things up."

Trouble in paradise?
Couldn't be, could it?

"But Kelly was audibly
cursing as he left the White House grounds and he did not return that day,
according to people with knowledge of the situation. The blowup came after
Nielsen, during a White House meeting, had touted an effort by the Mexican
government to enlist help from the United Nations’ Refugee Agency to process
asylum claims from a caravan of thousands of Honduran migrants traveling
north toward the United States. Trump has demanded that the Mexican government
disband the group and threatened to cut off foreign aid or upend a new
trade deal if it fails to do so."

Will certainly exacerbate
the problem. Lead to more illegal immigration. Clearly, our
national socialist, fascist, nazi fuhrer cannot understand this.
Hasn't a clue.

"Nielsen characterized
the U.N. involvement as a significant measure that could help stem the
flow, according to administration officials. Bolton, a longtime critic
of the U.N., responded that the international body was ineffective and
expressed disbelief at Nielsen’s view, the officials said, prompting an
argument over the DHS chief’s performance. Kelly, who served as the head
of that agency for the first six months of Trump’s tenure and handpicked
Nielsen to replace him, jumped in to defend her. “The White House wants
to see more passion, energy and a more proactive approach, rather than
waiting for the president to get pissed off and then come up with a solution,”
one senior DHS official familiar with the dispute said of Nielsen."

Conveniently, forget?
Staff only acts productively when there is a competent executive
at the top of the food chain. ... Think there is one?

“Trump threatening to
curtail all foreign assistance to Honduras is actually counterproductive,”
Pope said. “All evidence shows a couple dominant reasons why people leave
— violence and a lack of economic opportunity and no judicial accountability.
It’s what foreign assistance is meant to address.”

"At campaign rallies and
on Twitter, Trump has sought to blame Democrats and foreign leaders for
the mounting number of families at the border. In private, he has summoned
Nielsen to the West Wing for regular meetings, aides said."

Trump's incompetence,
instability are to blame.

"Trump is pushing for
a more muscular response, and he favors sending more U.S. soldiers to the
border. About 1,600 National Guard troops are deployed in four states after
Trump ordered the move in the spring, according to Homeland Security officials.
But DHS officials say they need more legal and legislative firepower. The
vast majority of Central American migrants who reach the border are turning
themselves in to Border Patrol agents, claiming a fear of return and a
desire to seek asylum. More National Guard troops and the border wall that
Trump has proposed would be largely irrelevant, experts have said."

If they present themselves
to agents at a legal border crossing and ask for asylum, they must be
processed by law. Given a chance to make their case in front
of a judge.

CBS News reports:

"A recent increase in
migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico caused agitation at the White
House this week and reportedly led to a heated shouting match between two
of the president's top advisers. Border Patrol arrests of migrant families
have been surging since the family separation policy ended earlier this
year, with nearly 17,000 family members arrested in September. The Department
of Homeland Security said that is the most on record for any month – and
an 80 percent increase from July."

Imagine that. Yet,
the idiots in our government can't understand why.

"The recent surge is overwhelming
government facilities and forcing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to
quickly release migrants just hours after they're arrested. Family apprehensions
by the U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona increased by 121 percent this year
as compared to last."

Intolerable living conditions
south of the border are the reason for this. Worse? All the
violence. Until these issues are addressed, expect the surge to continue.

NPR reports:

"U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement has all but abandoned its use of federal prisons to
house detainees."

Here's the problem:

"ICE's large-scale use
of federal prisons to house its detainees was unprecedented and controversial.
Many of the detainees sent to the prisons were seeking asylum. Yet, they
were treated as criminals, according to multiple immigration attorneys
who represented the detainees in several of the prisons, even though few
— if any — of the detainees had been charged criminally or were serving
a criminal sentence."

Imagine that. What
the hell were they doing in federal prisons?

"ICE was blending the
criminal, penal corrections system, blending it with the immigration, asylum
system and sort of creating this unified view that they all need to be
detained and incarcerated," says Stephen Manning, a Portland-based immigration
attorney. He represents the three remaining ICE detainees at the federal
prison in Oregon. Manning's firm, the Portland-based Innovation Law Lab,
originally represented more than 80 individuals held at the prison. The
government moved their asylum cases forward because all of Manning's clients
were found to have valid asylum claims."

Imagine that. Fascinating,
isn't it?

"It was an abject failure
of government policy to use the federal prisons for the detention of asylum
seekers and I hope this constitutionally risky experiment, which failed,
resonates and that we won't see it again," Manning says.

"The removal of the immigration
detainees shows that there are limits to the Trump administration's zero
tolerance policy towards asylum seekers and immigrants," says Kendrick.
"By just putting people in a medium security prison, which is designed
for convicted prisoners, the Department of Homeland Security and BOP were
violating the constitutional rights of the immigrants and asylum seekers."

A nazi fuhrer cares
nothing for constitutional rights.

"Immigration detainees
are held in civil detention, which under the law is supposed to be a higher
standard than criminal detention. But that's not always the case. Jorge
Baron, executive director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, says
some asylum seekers being held in the federal prison near Seattle told
him the treatment in the federal prison was better than the civil detentions'
facilities where they had been housed in the past. "This is not to say
I saw it as a positive that they were in this prison, but just that how
bad our immigration detention system is that folks who end up in a federal
prison feel like that's a more human treatment, which gives me serious
pause," he says. The fact that, for now, ICE has dramatically reduced its
used of federal prisons does little to ease Baron, who says ICE is continuing
its efforts to detain people."

Nazi storm troopers.
Raw nazism:

"Now they're ramping up
more facilities down on the southern border," he says. "So they may not
be using the federal prisons, but they're still detaining an incredibly
high number of people throughout the country."

Highly reminiscent of
Nazi Germany, circa 1933, when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor. Worse,
then, yet to come. As so, right here, right now.

"President Trump focused
on immigration Friday in Mesa, Ariz., in his second rally in three consecutive
days. Mr. Trump was campaigning for Rep. Martha McSally, who is locked
in a challenging race with Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema to fill retiring
Sen. Jeff Flake's Senate seat. Mr. Trump spent much of the rally talking
about undocumented immigrants, resurrecting the phrase "bad hombres" to
describe criminals entering the country illegally. He said hospitals and
schools were "overrun" with immigrants."

No facts to back up his
lies. A congenital liar:

"The casualties in the
Democrats' open border crusades are American families," Mr. Trump said,
incorrectly saying that the Democratic Party supports drugs and criminals
pouring into the country. He said that a Democratic victory in November
would be a "bright flashing sign" to allow drug dealers and criminals to
come into the country."

"Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo raised the stakes Sunday night as thousands of Central American
migrants headed for the United States marched into Mexico, claiming they
were inciting violence under the influence of politically motivated leaders."

Where is your evidence,
Mr. Pompeo? Where?

"On Sunday night, Pompeo
— who met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Mexican
Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso — went on the offensive, alleging
in a statement that many of the migrants were criminals themselves."

"We also are deeply concerned
by the violence provoked by some members of the group, as well as the apparent
political motivation of some organizers of the caravan," Pompeo said."

You're talking out your
ass, Mr. Pompeo. Show us the proof.

"As President Trump has
stated, consistent with U.S. law, the United States will not allow illegal
immigrants to enter or remain in the United States," said Pompeo, who offered
no examples of violence instigated by the migrants. The travelers have
said they are fleeing unemployment and violence in Honduras."

When or if they reach
a legal U.S. border crossing, they have the right to seek asylum.
By U.S. law.

"Trump, who has previously
threatened to cut off all aid to Honduras if the caravan isn't stopped,
said Sunday on Twitter that the procession was "a disgrace to the Democrat
Party," without offering evidence of Democratic involvement."

The president is a congenital
liar.

Trump is growing increasingly
desperate. CBS News reports:

"President Trump tweeted
Monday morning that the United States will begin slashing foreign aid to
Central American countries including Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador,
after they were "not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving
their country" and joining a caravan of thousands headed towards the U.S.
Mr. Trump, who has for days now blasted Democrats and the United States'
immigration laws over the caravan, also warned, without citing evidence,
that "unknown Middle Easterners" and "criminals" are mixed into the caravan
of people heading towards the United States' southern border. The president
declared on Twitter he has alerted the U.S. Customs and Border Protection
and the U.S. military "that this is a national" emergency."

The hell it is.
True national emergency? A psychotic narcissistic nazi fuhrer
in the Oval Office.

"Guatemala, Honduras and
El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving
their country and coming illegally to the U.S.," Mr. Trump tweeted Monday.
"We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive
foreign aid routinely given to them."

Only increase the surge.
Trump is stupid. Can't, won't be confused with the truth.

"Mr. Trump has for days
threatened to cut off aid to the Central American countries if they fail
to stop residents from pouring into the United States. The president has
also criticized Mexico for failing to stop the crowd.

"Sadly, it looks like
Mexico's Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to
the Southern Border of the United States," the president tweeted moments
earlier. "Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have
alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy. Must
change laws!"

More psychotic horse shit.

"Mr. Trump has openly
described the caravan and border crisis a great issue for Republicans politically
ahead of next month's midterms. Mr. Trump has repeatedly claimed the Democrats
don't care about security or law and order, particularly when it comes
to immigration. The president has threatened to seal off the U.S.-Mexico
border entirely, if necessary. Many of the migrants hail from Honduras,
fleeing violence, poverty and a lack of jobs."

Pathetic. Gets worse,
more disjointed:

"Every time you see a
Caravan, or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country
illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes
to change our pathetic Immigration Laws! Remember the Midterms!" Mr. Trump
also tweeted Monday morning. "So unfair to those who come in legally."

No end to the insanity.

... And duplicity.
The
Washington Post reports:

“As we speak, the Democrat
Party is openly encouraging millions of illegal aliens to break our laws,
violate our borders and overwhelm our nation. That’s what’s happening.
The Democrats have launched an assault on the sovereignty of our country,
the security of our nation and the safety of every single American.”

No truth to the above.
None of it. Forget? Trump is a congenital liar. While
the Democrats have not been worth a crap since November 22, 1963, Trump's
assertions are simply not true. Hyperbolic bullshit.

"A guy comes in, as
an example, West Side Highway in Manhattan. That’s where I am. Beautiful
park, beautiful highway. This animal is driving a car down, and he decides
he’s going to make a right, right into the park where everyone is working
out, exercising, running, bicycling. And he knocks everything down, including
kills eight people. And badly wounds — you ever notice they never talk
about the people that are wounded, where they lose their arms, and their
legs, and their lives can never be the same? They never talk. They say
eight people died. They don’t talk about the 12 people that lost something
so important.

"These are people that
are in a park where they go to exercise so they can be in perfect shape.
And they go home months later without their legs, without their arms. Because
this animal going at a very fast speed just decided he’s going to make
a right into the park and run people over.

“So he has 22 people
that came in, because he’s here. So he’s here. It’s called chain, a chain,
nice name, chain migration. He’s here. His mother comes with him, his father
then comes, his uncle, his aunt, his brother, his nephew, his sister, 22
people. No jobs. Just 22 people.”

Highly reminiscent of
Adolf Hitler, the Trump nazi seems to revel in the violence. Uses
it to support his national socialist, fascist agenda. Ferociously
pointedly, isn't that precisely what your wife, the First Lady, did for
her parents, Mr.'President?' Your hypocrisy? Unbecoming, --
even for a nazi fuhrer.

Earlier Trump rhetoric:

“We’ve removed thousands,
thousands of them. They came in through the wonderful Obama administration.
We removed thousands and thousands of these people. And the towns are liberated.
And you see the people, they’re clapping from their window. I’m telling
you, it’s like a war. It’s like a war zone.”

Later:

“They’re people. They
carve you up with a knife, but they’re people.”

This man is nuts.
Presents an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties.

Cowardly fail to financially
and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you
truly deserve.

10-26-18

The following remains
appalling. Appears to be getting worse. Clearly, Trump has
no backbone. Priority? Money. Principle? What's
that?
The Washington Post reports:

"A spokesman for President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party vowed Saturday that Turkey would “uncover
what has happened” to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, hours after Saudi
authorities said that the Washington Post contributing columnist had been
killed earlier this month during a fistfight inside the Saudi Consulate
in Istanbul. The Saudi explanation — that an argument in the consulate
led to a fatal brawl — is at odds with the conclusions of Turkish investigators,
who believe that Khashoggi was deliberately killed by a team of Saudi agents
who were dispatched to Istanbul.

"Turkey’s reaction to
the Saudi admission is being closely watched because of the conflicting
stories and because Turkish authorities are said to possess evidence, including
audiotapes, that could reveal exactly how Khashoggi was killed. Erdogan’s
government has so far refused to publicly reveal that evidence, possibly
to protect Turkish surveillance methods but also, analysts said, to preserve
a measure of leverage over the Saudis and the Trump administration, which
has tried to protect its Saudi allies."

Need to immediately release
what they have. Why sit on it any longer? Unless, of course,
they're talking out their ass.

Here's the problem:

"Khashoggi, a resident
of Virginia, vanished on the afternoon of Oct. 2, after visiting the Saudi
Consulate to obtain documents that would allow him to remarry. For weeks,
Saudi Arabia had denied any knowledge of his whereabouts and insisted that
he had walked out of the consulate unharmed. The denials became harder
to maintain as the Turkish authorities leaked investigative details, many
lurid, about the case to the local and international news media."

Again, why sit on this
information? Why play games?

"The Saudi story changed
early Saturday, when the government acknowledged for the first time that
Khashoggi, who had written columns for The Post critical of the Saudi leadership,
was dead. Saudi authorities said they had fired five top officials and
arrested 18 other Saudi nationals as a result of the preliminary investigation.
Two of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s close advisers were among those
fired."

Fall guys?

"Turkish investigators
are still searching for Khashoggi’s body, which they believe was cut into
pieces after he was killed. The Saudi statements on Saturday did not address
what happened to the body."

Imagine that.

NPR reports:

"Saudi Arabian officials
confirmed the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had been missing
for 18 days, in a statement issued Saturday morning local time. The statement,
translated into English by the Saudi Press Agency, said a preliminary investigation
into the events of Oct. 2 revealed that Khashoggi was killed in a fight
that broke out while he was visiting the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul."

Credible? Gets worse:

"The meeting "developed
in a negative way [that] led to a fight and a quarrel between some of them
and the citizen / Jamal Khashoggi, yet the brawl aggravated to lead to
his death and their attempt to conceal and cover what happened," the statement
said. The agency also confirmed that 18 Saudi nationals have been arrested
"in preparation for reaching all the facts."

That right?

"While the investigation
is ongoing, officials said, "The Kingdom expresses its deep regret at the
painful developments that have taken place and stresses the commitment
of the authorities in the Kingdom to bring them to justice."

Think so?

"Following the announcement
the White House issued a statement saying: "The United States acknowledges
the announcement from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that its investigation
into the fate of Jamal Khashoggi is progressing and that it has taken action
against the suspects it has identified thus far. We will continue to closely
follow the international investigations into this tragic incident and advocate
for justice that is timely, transparent, and in accordance with all due
process. We are saddened to hear confirmation of Mr. Khashoggi's death,
and we offer our deepest condolences to his family, fiancée, and
friends."

Empty, rings hollow.
Get this:

"At a roundtable with
defense contractors Friday night at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, Trump
called the Saudi announcement "a great first step," but reiterated that
he didn't think sanctions for the journalist's death should affect U.S.-Saudi
Arabia arms deals."

Blatant insanity.

"Anadolu reported that
Turkish security officials say "on the same day of Khashoggi's disappearance,
15 other Saudis, including several officials, arrived in Istanbul on two
planes and visited the consulate while Khashoggi was still inside." It
added: "All of the identified officials have since left Turkey." One suspect,
a senior intelligence official, is known to be a "frequent companion of
[Saudi] Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman," according to the Times."

The following? Pathetic:

"Trump said Thursday that
if Saudi Arabia is responsible, the consequences will be "very severe,"
according to the Times."

"Amnesty International
says Saudi Arabia should "immediately produce" the body of Saudi journalist
Jamal Khashoggi so that independence forensic experts can conduct an autopsy
in line with international standards. The human rights group issued the
appeal on Saturday, after Saudi Arabia said the columnist for The Washington
Post was killed in a fistfight in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate -- a
reversal from previous Saudi assertions that it knew nothing about Khashoggi's
fate. The writer vanished after entering the consulate on October 2. Samah
Hadid, Middle East director of campaigns for Amnesty International, said
in a statement that the Saudi version of events can't be trusted and that
whoever is responsible, regardless of their rank or status, should be brought
to justice."

"Hadid said an independent
investigation ordered by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres would
be necessary to avoid a "Saudi whitewash" of circumstances surrounding
the killing or any attempts by other governments to "sweep the issue under
the carpet to preserve lucrative arms deals and other business ties with
Riyadh." "The world needs to know what happened to Khashoggi," it says
in a statement calling for action."

Clearly, the United States,
under the Trump nazi, cannot be trusted to lead the charge.

The Washington Post
reports:

"According to a list confirmed
by Turkish officials, 15 Saudis flew to Istanbul on the morning of Oct.
2, participated in an operation that left Khashoggi dead and then quickly
left the country. At least 12 members of that team are connected to Saudi
security services, and several have links to Mohammed himself, according
to a review of passport records, social media, local media reports and
other material. Those personal connections and U.S. intelligence intercepts
of Saudi officials discussing a plan to lure Khashoggi home have contributed
to a growing suspicion that the crown prince was personally linked to the
incident. But the Saudi statement did not implicate him in the killing.
The preliminary investigation conducted by the prosecutor found that the
“suspects” traveled to Istanbul to meet with Khashoggi as he had expressed
an interest in returning to Saudi Arabia, the official news agency said.
Discussions that took place “developed in a negative way” and “led to a
fight and a quarrel between some of them and the citizen,” it said. “The
brawl aggravated to lead to his death and their attempt to conceal and
cover what happened,” it said."

Not all are marching in
goose step with Trump on this issue:

“To say that I am skeptical
of the new Saudi narrative about Mr. Khashoggi is an understatement,” Sen.
Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said in a Twitter post. “First we were told
Mr. Khashoggi supposedly left the consulate and there was blanket denial
of any Saudi involvement. Now, a fight breaks out and he’s killed in the
consulate, all without knowledge of Crown Prince.” Rep. Adam B. Schiff
(Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, was
also dismissive of the Saudi account. “The announcement that Jamal Khashoggi
was killed while brawling with a team of more than a dozen dispatched from
Saudi Arabia is not credible,” he said. “If Khashoggi was fighting inside
the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, he was fighting for his life with people
sent to capture or kill him.” Schiff added, “The kingdom and all involved
in this brutal murder must be held accountable, and if the Trump administration
will not take the lead, Congress must.”

Get this:

"A senior U.S. official
said the Saudi explanation raised more questions than it answered about
Mohammed’s knowledge of the incident. The official, who spoke on the condition
of anonymity to give a frank assessment, noted that Assiri and Qahtani
are among Mohammed’s closest aides and said they could not have acted without
orders him. “It’s impossible to blame them for anything without MBS having
a direct role,” the official said, using Mohammed’s initials."

NPR reports:

"Saudi journalist Jamal
Khashoggi was "brutally murdered" as part of a meticulous operation by
a team of Saudis, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday,
rejecting Saudi Arabia's claim that the death was accidental. Erdogan called
for Saudi Arabia to share facts about the case and said the suspects should
be tried in Turkey."

Why haven't you released
all 'evidence' you claim to have, Mr. President?

"Neither the Vienna Convention
nor other international laws allow the investigation into such a brutal
murder to be cloaked behind the shield of diplomatic immunity," the president
told members of his ruling party in Ankara. Erdogan made the remarks in
a much-anticipated speech about Khashoggi's killing — remarks timed to
coincide with Saudi Arabia's high-profile Future Investment Initiative
summit, dubbed "Davos in the Desert." State news agency Anadolu has reported
that Turkish security officials say a 15-member team traveled from Saudi
Arabia to Turkey just before Khashoggi, a U.S. resident, disappeared at
the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. In his speech to Turkey's parliament,
Erdogan said the teams arrived in separate groups — two sets of three people
and one group of nine."

Again, why not release
all 'evidence' you claim to have, sir? Why play games?

"The information and evidences
uncovered so far show that Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered," Erdogan
said. "Covering up such a brutal act would wound the conscience of all
mankind." Erdogan also laid out what he called a series of troubling questions.
Among them, he said: "The body of Jamal Khashoggi is still missing — why
is that?" Saudi Arabia has said Khashoggi's body was turned over to a local
collaborator but that it doesn't know what happened to the remains afterward.
On Tuesday, the Turkish president asked, "Who is the local collaborator?"

Good question.
All the more reason you need to immediately release everything you've supposedly
got on this murder.

"Pressing for full disclosure
of who ordered the operation that led to the killing, Erdogan also said,
"leaving some security and intelligence forces holding the bag will not
satisfy — neither us nor the international community."

Your failure to disclose
all evidence you claim to have is certainly a problem, Mr. President.

"CIA Director Gina Haspel
is traveling to Ankara and is expected to review the evidence gathered
by Turkish investigators — possibly including audio recordings that anonymous
investigators have spoken about to journalists, but that have not been
shared to date, according to Turkish officials."

Poor choice.
Especially, since Haspel has her own unresolved issues vis a vis torture.

CBS News reports:

"The Turkish president
presented no new evidence to the world on Tuesday from his country's investigation
into the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, as skepticism intensified
about Saudi Arabia's account that he died accidentally in its consulate
in Istanbul. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said he would "go into
detail" about the case that has shocked the world and raised suspicions
that a Saudi hit squad planned Khashoggi's killing after he walked into
the consulate on Oct. 2, and then attempted to cover it up. The key piece
of evidence -- which, if it exists, the Turks have been keeping to themselves
-- is a purported audio recording of the killing itself. Turkish officials
have leaked gruesome details of the alleged recording to the media over
the past two weeks. However, both the Turks and U.S. officials say no such
audio has been shared, and thus far its existence has not been proven."

Why not? Far more
pressure needs to be brought to bear on the Turkish president to be far
more forthcoming.

"Erdogan said on Monday
that he would reveal to the world the "naked truth" about what happened
in the Saudi consulate, but addressing lawmakers in the Turkish parliament
on Tuesday, the Turkish leader added little more than rhetoric to the scandal,
accusing the Saudi government of a "savage," premeditated "political murder,"
but offering no solid evidence to back the claim. He did not mention any
audio or video evidence in the case."

This is a problem.
Goes to his credibility.

NPR reports:

"Newly released surveillance
footage shows a man apparently wearing the same clothes Saudi journalist
Jamal Khashoggi was wearing the day he disappeared after entering Saudi
Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. A Turkish ruling party official called
the footage evidence of a Saudi cover-up, while another official described
the man seen in the video as a "body double."

CBS News reports:

"Global outrage over the
death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of an alleged Saudi Arabian
hit squad has raised the heat on U.S. companies to justify doing business
with the kingdom. President Donald Trump seemingly has fewer qualms, recently
defending the countries' commercial ties -- especially when it comes to
supplying Saudi Arabia with arms -- by saying the relationship creates
lots of U.S jobs. But how many jobs? Mr. Trump said at an event last week
that agreements between American defense contractors and Saudi Arabia account
for 600,000 jobs in the U.S. We set out to verify if that number is correct."

"In 2017, the White House
said in a release that U.S. defense agreements with Saudi Arabia present
"opportunities for American companies in the region, potentially supporting
tens of thousands of new jobs in the United States." Last week, however,
Mr. Trump told Fox Business News that U.S. defense contracts with Saudi
Arabia valued by the White House at $110 billion that the contracts account
for half a million U.S. jobs. Specifically, he said: "Again, I've had some
senators come up and some congressmen that said, 'Well, you know, sir,
I think what we should do is we should not take that order.' I said, 'Who
are we hurting? It's 500,000 jobs.'" Only days later, however, Mr. Trump
told reporters at a roundtable that canceling the contracts would mean
giving up on 1 million jobs, according to the Post."

Precisely, why the nazi
in the Oval Office has no credibility. Zero. None. Nada.
Zilch.

"A report by the Aerospace
Industries Association found that in 2016 the U.S. defense and national
security sector generated $146.7 billion in sales and supported a total
of 355,500 jobs. Meanwhile, a tally of the five biggest U.S. defense contractors
shows the companies have a total of fewer than 400,000 employees around
the world. On its website, Boeing says its defense division employs about
32,000. The whole company, which includes commercial aircraft, had a total
workforce of 140,800 last year, according to an SEC filing. Raytheon's
global workforce is about 64,000, according to a 2017 regulatory filing.
Northrop Grumman has roughly 70,000 workers. General Dynamics, which also
owns private aircraft maker Gulfstream, lists nearly 97,000 employees in
a 2017 filing. And Lockheed Martin reports about 100,000 employees."

Somebody's lying.
Guess who?

"The upshot: It's hard
to square the actual number of U.S. jobs supported by Saudi contracts with
Mr. Trump's more expansive figure."

... So, what else is
new? LOL.

CBS News reports:

"President Trump told
reporters Tuesday the cover-up of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death executed
by the Saudis was "one of the worst in the history of cover-ups."

Think so? How about
Trump's effort to stonewall the ongoing Mueller investigation of his administration?

"Speaking in the Oval
Office for a bill signing alongside members of Congress, Mr. Trump told
reporters he would leave it to Congress to decide how to handle the situation
with the Saudis. But he said the Saudis had a "very bad" idea that "should
have never been thought of." "They had a very bad original concept," Mr.
Trump said. "It was carried out poorly, and the cover-up was one of the
worst in the history of cover-ups. Very simple. Bad deal, should have never
been thought of."

Can't the same be said
of you, Mr. 'President?'

"But the president said
he's still waiting on all the facts. CIA Director Gina Haspel, as CBS News
has previously reported, visited Turkey earlier this week over the Khashoggi
situation, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Saudi Arabia and
Turkey. Pompeo announced Tuesday that the U.S. would be revoking the visas
of Saudi operatives who are accused of killing Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
"I think I'll know everything in a short period of time," the president
said Tuesday. "I want to see the facts first."

Facts? Facts?
You create your own, sir. Remain a congenital liar.

"Mr. Trump has been reluctant
about the possibility of ending arms sales with the Saudis, emphasizing
the importance of the investment in America's economy. He's claimed America
would lose a million jobs without that relationship. "We do that, we're
just hurting ourselves," the president said of pulling out of the Saudis'
order. "It is a terrible thing, but it would really be hurting ourselves."

He's talking out the ass.
The Saudis have been f--king over the United States since January 1973.
... When gasoline doubled in price courtesy of the Saudis. Of course,
Big Oil in the United States got in on the action, lined their pockets
as well the last 45 years in conjunction with these bastards. Amazingly,
the public put up with this horse shit. Still does.

"Sen. Ben Cardin, the
Maryland Democratic ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations, who
was in Oval Office Tuesday when Mr. Trump made those remarks, said Congress
is reviewing all its options for punishing the Saudis, including, but not
limited to, sanctions. "There is a growing group of senators, both Democrats
and Republicans, who recognize how serious this is, and it will have consequences
in regards to our relationship with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia," Cardin
said."

About goddamned time.

"I think Congress is going
to demand that there will be appropriate action," Cardin added."

Empty rhetoric, -- until
it happens. Then again, don't hold your breath. Forget?
Congress is bought and paid for by the corporate management suite.

CBS News reports:

"Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo announced Tuesday that the U.S. would be revoking the visas of Saudi
operatives who are accused of killing Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
Pompeo briefed reporters Tuesday, after meeting with Saudi and Turkish
officials in the wake of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He did
not specify how many visas the U.S. was revoking."

Why not? The public
is entitled to this information.

"The secretary of state
also told reporters at the State Department that the U.S. has identified
some of the people "who we suspect to be responsible" for Khashoggi's death.
Pompeo also said that the State Department is working with the Treasury
Department on the applicability of global Magnitsky sanctions to the Saudis
responsible. This will not be the last word on the matter, he promised,
though he also acknowledged shared strategic interests with the Saudis."

Talking out both sides
the ass. No principles. No honor. Money rules.
Forget?

"We're making very clear
that the United States does not tolerate this ruthless action to silence
Mr. Khashoggi, a journalist, through violence," Pompeo said."

No you're not. Quite
the opposite.

Here comes the bullshit:

"Pompeo said that the
Turks have been "very cooperative with us," although he declined to answer
a question about whether any U.S. officials have heard an audio recording
of Khashoggi that Turkish officials reportedly have in their possession.
"I don't have anything more to share with you about particular data sets,"
the secretary said."

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10-26-18

Think the following presidential?
Indicative of a man of principle? Honor? ABC News reports:

"A misdemeanor assault
charge is something that most political candidates would like forgotten.
That could be the case for Rep. Greg Gianforte, a Republican running for
re-election in Montana, who first garnered national headlines in May 2017
when he allegedly body-slammed a reporter. The controversial move was appealing
to President Donald Trump, apparently. He praised Gianforte at a rally
on Thursday, saying, "Any guy who can do a body slam, he is my type!"

Think so?

"The Associated Press
reported that Gianforte pleaded guilty in June 2017, paid a $385 fine,
completed 40 hours of community service, 20 hours of anger management training,
wrote an apology letter and donated $50,000 to the Committee to Protect
Journalists."

Trump supports this criminal
activity. Think that presidential?

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10-26-18

Your hard-earned tax dollars
at work. CBS News reports:

"The Air Force has responded
to an inquiry by Sen. Chuck Grassley about the high price of cups purchased
for the Travis Air Force Base, where cups have been purchased for $1,280
each this year. Grassley sent a letter earlier this month to Air Force
Secretary Heather Wilson, asking for the total combined cost of these cups,
and asking why the price of cups had jumped from $693 in 2016 to $1,280
in 2018."

Simple. Someone's
pockets are lined. Wake up.

"These cups, which are
able to reheat liquids, have handles which break when dropped, meaning
that they often need to be replaced. In his letter, Grassley asked Wilson
"what cheaper alternatives for providing hot coffee have been explored
by the Air Force," and whether she would ask the Office of the Inspector
General to review the spending on cups."

"In a reply dated Oct.
17, Wilson responded that Grassley was "right to be concerned about the
high cost of spare parts." The cups plug into aircrafts in order to reheat
contents. Wilson also said that a recent review showed that the Air Force
is able to make replacement handles for the cups using a 3D printer for
50 cents each. Responding to Grassley's questions, she said the Air Force
had spent $326,785 on 391 of these cups since 2016. The increase in price
from $693 is due to increased price for raw materials to make the cup."

Think any of these goddamned
politicians good at anything other than lining their pockets?

"In a statement, Grassley
expressed his continued displeasure with spending taxpayer dollars on Air
Force-approved thermoses. "While I appreciate that the Air Force is working
to find innovations that would help save taxpayer dollars, it remains unclear
why it cannot find a cheaper alternative to a $1,280 cup. Government officials
have the responsibility to use taxpayer dollars efficiently. Too often,
that's not the case. I intend to pursue this issue further," he said."

Do what? Shit squat?
Get this:

"Grassley previously inquired
about overpriced toilet seat lids purchased by the Air Force. The Air Force
has since moved to making lids with a 3D printer for $300, as opposed to
purchasing lids for $10,000 each."

Jesus Christ. No
hope. LOL.

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10-26-18

Trump and his henchmen
intend to define 'sex.' NPR reports:

"A memo that has reportedly
been circulating at the Department of Health and Human Services aims to
narrow the federal government's definition of "sex" under Title IX — a
change that could leave transgender people without a number of the legal
protections that have become standard in recent years."

The nazi way. Adolf
and Benito would have been most approving.

"The memo reported on
by The New York Times has not been released publicly. NPR has not seen
it, and HHS says it does not comment on "alleged leaked documents." But
the potential impact of the policies described in the memo, and the headline
under which the Times ran its story – " 'Transgender' Could Be Defined
Out of Existence Under Trump Administration" — inspired grave fears and
fervent protest. People gathered in New York City's Washington Square Park
on Sunday evening to rally for trans rights, and on Monday, protesters
rallied in front of the White House holding signs that declared, "We will
not be erased."

The Nazi Right intends
to do all it can to do precisely that.

"The Times reports that
the document was written in the spring and proposes that different government
agencies adopt a unified definition of sex — specifically one that defines
it as determined "on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science,
objective and administrable."

Think so? Wake
up:

"The agency's proposed
definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and
determined by the genitals that a person is born with," the Times reports,
based on the draft seen by its reporters. "Any dispute about one's sex
would have to be clarified using genetic testing."

Goddamned f--king nazis.
Determined to impose their outrageously perverse religious and ideological
views on all. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment
Clause, that is, freedom from religion.

"Title IX is the federal
law passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972 that prohibits discrimination
on the basis of sex "under any education program or activity receiving
Federal financial assistance." The term "sex" refers to gender, which has
since been expanded under the law to include sexual orientation and gender
identity.

"The Trump administration
has already taken steps to try to disqualify most transgender people from
serving in the military. Earlier this month, the State Department implemented
a policy denying visas to same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and the
staff of U.S.-based international organizations if they're not legally
married. Many of the affected couples are from countries where same-sex
marriage is illegal."

Raw nazism.

The Washington Post
reports:

"Jordan Evans, 27, is
a town constable and an elected library trustee in Charlton, Mass. She’s
a Republican, as are most of the people in her hometown, a rural community
where about 54 percent of voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump in
2016. Evans is also transgender, as are about 1 million other adult Americans,
according to rough estimates. Few combine the two identities. Evans is
believed to be the lone openly transgender elected Republican — “my cross
to bear,” as she puts it.

“I am afraid,” the Republican
politician said in an interview. “I’m absolutely distraught.” “Not so much
afraid for me," clarified Evans, who has been embraced by those closest
to her since she first came out as transgender in 2013 and began to medically
transition in 2015. "I’m afraid for people who are younger than me — people
who don’t have the kind of experiences in the world that I’ve had. They
see this, and they’re rightfully terrified.”

Courtesy of Republican
nazis determined to impose their perverse religious and ideological views
on all. While Democrats do squat shit.

"The new policy, she observed,
would be in line with the president’s attempt to ban transgender troops
— an order repeatedly blocked by the courts. The administration has also
prohibited officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
from using the word “transgender” in official budget documents, as The
Washington Post reported in December, and the Department of Health and
Human Services has archived a page that outlined services available for
LGBT people. In February, the government revoked Obama administration protections
for transgender students that allowed them to use bathrooms, locker rooms
and other facilities that matched their gender identity rather than their
sex assigned at birth."

Raw nazism. Sick
religion.

"Evans said the new move
would be “shortsighted of the administration.” The country is growing more
accepting of transgender people, she said, as the president is moving the
government in the opposite direction. “As a Republican, it’s disgusting
to see my party continue to push these types of things through in a world
that’s changing. If we don’t change with the world, we are ultimately going
to lose.”

No question. Bloom
is more than off the rose.

"She said she has been
encouraged by the swift response from the transgender community. “Trans
people have been under attack by this administration from day 1 and in
state legislatures for years now,” Laverne Cox, the transgender “Orange
Is the New Black” actress, wrote on Twitter on Sunday. “Let’s join together
America and assert #TransRightsAreHumanRights.” She added, “#TransIsBeautiful.”
Both rallying cries were trending on social media over the weekend. Politicians
joined the chorus against defining sex as immutably male or female and
requiring genetic testing to settle any disputes. By and large, however,
those who have spoken out differ from Evans in a notable way. They don’t
share her partisan affiliation."

Yet, Democrats remain
all talk. No action.

“We will always protect
our transgender brothers and sisters,” Democratic Sen. Edward J. Markey
of Massachusetts wrote on Twitter. “We must transcend hate every day. And
we must transfer power on Election Day.” The Democratic attorney general
of New York said her office would “do everything in our power to protect
transgender New Yorkers.” Transgender politicians who have gained a measure
of national prominence also weighed in. Christine Hallquist, a Democrat
of Vermont and the first openly transgender major party nominee for governor,
used colorful language to describe how she would respond if elected. The
Virginia House Democrats tweeted its support for Danica Roem, the first
openly transgender lawmaker in a U.S. statehouse.

"Wow.
Sure as hell hope I win this election! The Trump administration is going
to get a can of whoop-ass from me! https://t.co/fv8xZLgEAL —
Christine Hallquist (@christineforvt) October 21, 2018"

When will support transition
to something more than empty talk?

CBS News reports:

"Anatomy at birth may
prompt a check in the "male" or "female" box on the birth certificate —
but to doctors and scientists, sex and gender aren't always the same thing.
The Trump administration reportedly is considering defining gender as determined
by sex organs at birth, which if adopted could deny certain civil rights
protections to an estimated 1.4 million transgender Americans. But variation
in gender identity is a normal part of human diversity, the American Academy
of Pediatrics, or AAP, stresses in a new policy that outlines how to provide
supportive medical care for transgender youth."

Trump and his henchmen
are determined to please their base on the Nazi Right. What better
way than impose their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views
on all?

"Sex typically refers
to anatomy while "gender goes beyond biology," says Dr. Jason Rafferty,
a pediatrician and child psychiatrist at Hasbro Children's Hospital in
Rhode Island, and lead author of the AAP's transgender policy. Gender identity
is more an inner sense of being male, female or somewhere in between —
regardless of physical anatomy, he explained. It may be influenced by genetics
and other factors, but it's more about the brain than the sex organs. And
transgender is a term accepted across science and medical groups to mean
people whose gender identity doesn't match what Rafferty calls their "sex
assigned at birth."

Forget? Nazi Right
remains utterly incapable of being confused by the truth.

Here's the insanity of
the Trump nazi in all its 'glory.' Get this. NBC News reports:

"U.S. President Donald
Trump said on Monday that transgender issues were in flux and he aims to
protect the country after a report that his administration was considering
defining gender as male or female based on genitalia at birth drew widespread
condemnation. “We have a lot of different concepts right now. They have
a lot of different things happening with respect to transgender right now,”
Trump said amid a protest outside the White House and outpouring of criticism
on social media about the proposal. Asked about a campaign promise to protect
the LGBTQ community, Trump said: “I’m protecting everybody. I want to protect
our country.”

This man is dangerous.
An idiot. A lunatic. A direct, exigent threat to life, liberty,
all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"Under a proposal first
reported by the New York Times on Sunday, the Trump administration would
narrow the definition of gender to male or female at birth and it would
be unchangeable later in life."

Who knows better than
the Trump nazi and his fellow idiots? Forget? Has to satisfy,
appease his fellow lunatics on the 'Religious' Right.

"The move would remove
recognition of and protections for transgender people under U.S. civil
rights laws promoted by the prior administration of President Barack Obama
in health care, schools and the military."

Raw nazism.

"About 1.4 million U.S.
adults identify as transgender, according to a 2016 estimate by the Williams
Institute, a research center at UCLA Law School focused on sexual orientation
and gender identity law and public policy. Medical experts said on Monday
that defining gender based on genitalia at birth is scientifically inaccurate
and may harm patients’ health. Dr. Joshua Safer, executive director of
Mount Sinai Hospital’s Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, said
the Trump administration’s definition is “not consistent with current western
medicine or science in terms of how we actually operate or define sex of
individuals.”

To the achingly ignorant
Nazi Right, sick 'religion' trumps reality, science, medicine, to say nothing
of the United States Constitution.

“Sex of individuals is
not correlated always with their genitals at birth, or with their chromosomes,”
said Safer, who also serves as president of the United States Professional
Association for Transgender Health. Most transgender people live with a
profound sense that the gender assigned to them at birth was wrong and
transition to the opposite sex, while others live a non-binary or gender-fluid
life. “We urge the administration to ensure all public health policy is
firmly rooted in science, and to keep discrimination and political interference
out of our nation’s health,” said Dr. Lisa Hollier, president of the American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists."

Clearly impossible for
a national socialist, fascist, nazi dictator masquerading as president
of the United States.

"Beyond the broader issues
raised by the administration memo, doctors said the new policy would be
impossible to apply to “intersex” babies who are born with ambiguous genitalia
or reproductive organs."

What then?

“Trump’s definition does
not even take this entire group of patients into consideration,” said Dr.
Natasha Bhuyan, a family medicine and LGBTQ care specialist in Phoenix.
If the administration’s recommended definition is adopted, these patients
will likely be assigned a male or female sex at birth, which can have devastating
long-term psychological and health consequences, she said."

A national socialist fascist
nazi, -- and his henchmen, couldn't care less.

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10-26-18

Where's the outrage of
the Nazi Right? CBS News reports:

"A man accused of groping
a woman during a Southwest Airlines flight over the weekend apparently
justified his actions by invoking President Trump. According to an affidavit
obtained by CBS affiliate KHOU, he said the president says its OK to grab
women by their private parts."

Indeed, Trump did.
Conveniently, forget?

"Bruce Alexander, 49,
was arrested on Sunday after a Southwest Flight 5421 coming from Houston
landed in Albuquerque. He appeared in federal court on Monday and was charged
with abusive sexual contact after he allegedly touched a woman's breast
while he was sitting behind her on the Southwest flight."

Think this guy's not a
pig? Get this:

"The victim said she felt
Alexander's hand move from behind her and grab her right breast, according
to the affidavit. She said she fell asleep about 20 minutes into the flight
and not long after, she felt him touch her but assumed it was an accident.
In a second incident 30 minutes later, she said she felt Alexander's hand
grab the back of her arm and grope around her ribs and then her breast.
The woman then stood up and told Alexander she did not understand how he
could think that was OK and he needed to stop. She then asked a flight
attendant to reseat her and was relocated to another section of the plane.
Both Alexander and the victim said they had not been drinking alcohol or
had taking any sleep aids, the affidavit said. The victim said Alexander
was a "total stranger."

Kicker? Get this:

"When Alexander was questioned
by authorities, he said he could not recall touching the woman. He said
he was sitting behind a woman and was asleep for most of the flight. Upon
arrival at Albuquerque International Sunport, Alexander was detained and
asked FBI agents what the sentence was for the charge he was being arrested
for. He later stated to officers, "the President of the United States says
it's OK to grab women by their private parts," according to the affidavit."

Indeed, he did.
... That now called the 'Trump defense?'

"His defense comes in
reference to a 2005 Access Hollywood tape that recorded a conversation
between Mr. Trump and then-host Billy Bush in which the future president
used sexist and disparaging language about women as Bush laughed along.
The tape is best remembered as the moment where Mr. Trump boasted that
women allowed him to "grab them by the p****."

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10-26-18

Think the nazi, national
socialist Republican-controlled U.S. Supreme Court is not in the pocket
of the Trump nazi and his henchmen? NPR reports:

"The Supreme Court has
temporarily shielded Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross from having to sit
for questioning under oath in the lawsuits over a controversial citizenship
question the Trump administration added to the 2020 census. In a separate
concurring opinion for Justice Clarence Thomas and himself, Justice Neal
Gorsuch described a lower court's order allowing "a trial to probe the
Secretary's mental processes" as "highly unusual, to say the least." Released
on Monday, the court's order allows the administration to file additional
requests for the high court to permanently block Ross' deposition."

These fascist bastards
on the highest court of the land are protecting the Trump nazi and his
henchmen. Legislate their perverse ideological and religious views
from the bench.

"In a written statement,
Kelly Laco, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, called the order
"a win for protecting the rights of the Executive Branch." The agency is
representing the Trump administration in these lawsuits. "The intrusive
and improper discovery in this case disrupts the orderly functioning of
our government and is, as Justices Gorsuch and Thomas noted, 'highly unusual,'
" she wrote. "The Department of Justice is committed to protecting the
rule of law and looks forward to further proceedings before the Supreme
Court."

No more than a kangaroo
court for the Nazi Right in our formerly great country. With rare
exception:

"The administration's
request to temporarily block other lower court orders for the lawsuits,
however, were not successful. The Supreme Court is allowing the plaintiffs'
attorneys to question Justice Department official John Gore, who leads
the department's civil rights division that the administration says needs
the citizenship question to better enforce the Voting Right Act. Document
requests from the plaintiffs can also move forward as the start date for
the first potential trial over the citizenship question draws closer. In
a written statement, Amy Spitalnick — a spokesperson for the New York state
attorney general's office, which is representing the plaintiffs in one
of the lead lawsuits — said the plaintiffs "welcome the Court's decision
to allow us to complete discovery in the case, with the exception only
of Sec. Ross' deposition.""We'll get to the bottom of how the decision
to demand citizenship status was made, as we continue our case to ensure
a full and fair Census," Spitalnick wrote in an email."

Think so?

"New York is among the
dozens of states, cities and other groups that are suing to get the question
Ross approved for the upcoming national head count removed. The question
asks, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?" The plaintiffs'
attorneys are trying to prove that Ross misused his authority over the
census by adding the hotly contested question. In his opinion from September
that accompanied the lower court order allowing the questioning of Ross
under oath, U.S. District Jesse Furman wrote: "Secretary Ross must sit
for a deposition because, among other things, his intent and credibility
are directly at issue in these cases."

"Gorsuch noted in his
opinion that the trial in New York may have to be postponed if the Trump
administration asks the Supreme Court to hear the case."

Convenient, isn't it?
Think Gorsuch and his four other Republican colleagues on the Supreme Court
are not in the pocket of the Trump nazi?

Here's the problem:

"The administration says
the Justice Department's civil rights division, currently led by Gore,
needs the question's responses to better enforce the Voting Rights Act
protections against racial discrimination. Census Bureau research, however,
suggests using the census to ask every U.S. household about citizenship
status in the current political climate could discourage noncitizens, including
immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, from taking part in the head count.
The Constitution requires the federal government to count every person
living in the U.S. — regardless of citizenship status — once a decade."

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10-26-18

In stump speeches for
fellow Republican fascists, Trump falsely but coyly claims to be a 'nationalist.'
Not so. Goes far beyond. He is and remains a national socialist.
Fascism,
nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government,
business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of
the latter.

NPR reports:

"But the word nationalist
has connotations other than simply embracing all 50 states and the District
of Columbia. It has too often been associated with far more divisive attitudes.
Trump was asked in the Oval Office on Tuesday about the meaning of white
nationalism. He claimed never to have heard of that usage. Apparently,
no one asked if he had heard of black nationalism, which has also been
a thing."

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10-26-18

The Trump nazi can't,
won't be confused with the truth. A congenital liar. NPR reports:

"Sadly, it looks like
Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to
the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle
Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that
this is a National Emergy. Must change laws! —
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2018

"Later, he repeated that
unsubstantiated claim, telling White House reporters "you're going to find
MS-13, you're going to find Middle Eastern. You're going to find everything.
And guess what? We're not allowing them in our country. We want safety."
Reporters traveling with the caravan and the migrants themselves say they
haven't seen any Middle Easterners in the group."

Couldn't be, could it?
'President' wouldn't lie, would he?

"While it's not unheard
of for people from the Middle East to try to cross the border illegally
from Mexico, it is extremely rare. Of more than 300,000 people apprehended
last year trying to cross the Southern border illegally, fewer than 100
came from countries in the Middle East, according to data gathered by Customs
and Border Protection. Tuesday afternoon the president acknowledged, after
some back-and-forth with a reporter, that he had no proof there are Middle
Easterners in the Central American caravan. "There's no proof of anything,"
Trump said. But he insisted the migrants and illegal immigration in general
pose a serious threat to the country."

Delusionally, believe
so? His sick sycophants certainly do.

"Many mainstream Republicans
thought they would be running this year on the strength of the big tax
cut that Congress passed in 2017. But as time has passed, that tax cut
has not worn very well. Maybe people aren't seeing a bump in their own
take-home pay. Or perhaps they're worried about the federal deficit, which
has ballooned as corporate tax revenues fell. Approval for the tax cut
is hovering around 40 percent."

Clearly, the public grew
wise to the ruse.

"The president has been
offering supporters a fix for this: another tax cut, this time directed
at the middle class rather than those at the top of the income ladder.
"We're going to be putting in a 10 percent tax cut for middle-income families,"
Trump told supporters in Houston Monday. "It's going to be put in next
week."

Think so?

"Whatever you might think
of the merits of another tax cut, it's not going to happen next week as
the president suggested. Congress is not even in session until after the
election. Moreover, no one outside the White House seems to have much of
an idea of what the president is talking about."

Clearly, neither does
he. LOL.

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10-26-18

Psychotic Nazi Right at
it again. NPR reports:

"The Secret Service said
Wednesday that it has intercepted two suspicious packages that were addressed
to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Westchester County, N.Y.,
and former President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. On Monday, an explosive
device was found at the home of billionaire George Soros — a frequent contributor
to Democratic and progressive causes.

"CNN also reported that
its New York City office was evacuated Wednesday morning due to a suspicious
package received in its mailroom. In a note to staff, CNN President Jeff
Zucker said the Time Warner Center was cleared "out of an abundance of
caution."

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10-26-18

Republicans continue to
do all they can to abrogate voting rights. NPR reports:

"Since the 2010 elections,
24 states have implemented new restrictions on voting. Alabama now requires
a photo ID to cast a ballot. Other states such as Ohio and Georgia have
enacted "use it or lose it" laws, which strike voters from registration
rolls if they have not participated in an election within a prescribed
period of time. Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman, author of Give Us the
Ballot, says that many of the restrictions are part of a broader Republican
strategy to tighten access to the ballot — an effort that was bolstered
in 2013 by the Supreme Court's Shelby County v. Holder ruling. "[That]
decision," Berman explains, "said that those states with the longest histories
of discrimination no longer had to approve their voting changes with the
federal government." You're seeing a national effort by the Republican
Party to try to restrict voting rights, and it's playing out in states
all across the country."

Sadly, going on for years.
Despite the fact Democrats have not been worth a crap since November 22,
1963.

"As a result, Berman says,
"You're seeing a national effort by the Republican Party to try to restrict
voting rights, and it's playing out in states all across the country."
Many of the new voting restrictions are occurring in states like Georgia,
North Dakota and Kansas, which have critical races in the 2018 midterms.
Berman says that it's still unclear what the impact of the restrictions
will be on the upcoming elections, but he remains hopeful that the tide
might be shifting on voter restrictions."

Don't hold your breath.

NBC News reports:

"Georgia election officials
must stop rejecting absentee ballots and applications because of a mismatched
signature without first giving voters a chance to fix the problem, a federal
judge said Wednesday in a ruling that could impact the race for governor
where voting rights has become a major issue. U.S. District Judge Leigh
May ordered the secretary of state's office to instruct county election
officials to stop the practice for the November midterm elections. She
outlined a procedure to allow voters to resolve alleged signature discrepancies.
Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican who oversees elections in the
state, and Democrat Stacey Abrams sparred over voting rights and allegations
of suppression in their first debate on Tuesday night. The race is neck
and neck, polls show. Kemp accused Abrams of encouraging undocumented immigrants
to vote illegally, while Abrams charged her rival with mass purging voters,
many of whom are African-Americans."

The Republican way for
quite some time.

"May's order comes in
response to two lawsuits filed earlier this month allege that election
officials are improperly rejecting absentee ballots. The lawsuits said
the rejections without first letting voters challenge the determination
violated voters' constitutional rights. May gave the parties until noon
Thursday to comment on whether the language in her order is "confusing
or will be unworkable" for election officials. One lawsuit was filed by
the American Civil Liberties Union and its Georgia chapter on behalf of
the Georgia Muslim Voter Project and Asian-Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta.
The other was filed by the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda and
five individual voters, including two candidates for office."

"Both lawsuits challenge
the rejection of absentee ballots and absentee ballot applications without
allowing voters an opportunity to dispute a finding of a mismatched signature.
The lawsuit filed on behalf of the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda
and individual voters also challenges the rejection of absentee ballots
because of what it calls technical errors, like writing the current year
in a space designated for the voter's birth year or signing on the wrong
line."

Anything to abrogate voting
rights to non-Republicans.

"The lawyers behind both
lawsuits had filed emergency requests asking May to make certain immediate
changes while the litigation is pending, though they sought different remedies.
Both sets of lawyers applauded the judge's ruling. May wrote in her order
that she was only addressing the signature mismatch issue. She had said
during a hearing Tuesday that she was especially concerned about people
whose signature doesn't match and who may not be able to vote in person
if their absentee ballot is rejected, noting that submitting another absentee
ballot or application may not fix the problem if the signature still doesn't
match."

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10-19-18

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

More of the same.
Aggressive stupidity at its very worst. ... Hear the rumble?
ABC News reports:

"The Trump administration
informed a federal judge in Chicago on Friday that it's seeking to scuttle
a plan negotiated between the nation's third-largest city and the state
of Illinois that envisions far-reaching reforms of Chicago's 12,000-officer
police force under close federal court supervision."

Certainly, can't have
that in a goddamned fascist police-state, can we, Mr. Attorney General?

"In a statement announcing
the intervention, Attorney General Jeff Sessions blasted the roughly 200-page
plan, also known as a consent decree, because of the court oversight. And
he offered a full-throated defense of Chicago police, saying they must
take the lead in stemming city violence."

They are the cause of
at least some of this violence, you clueless national socialist, fascist,
nazi son of a bitch. Wake up.

"There is a misperception
that police are the problem and that their failures, their lack of training,
and their abuses create crime," Sessions said. "But the truth is the police
are the solution to crime, and criminals are the problem."

You're delusional, Mr.
Attorney General. Police are inciting at least some of this violence.
-- Violence the criminal element is responding to in at least some of these
cases. Worse? The public fears both the criminal jackbooted
bastards in blue as well as the criminal element for damned good reason.
Have difficulty distinguishing who's worse. Wake up.
Your ignorance, Aryan arrogance, unbecoming. Direct threat
to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"An 11-page Justice Department
statement of interest — filed with Judge Robert M. Dow Jr., who must grant
the proposal final approval — says the reform plan, as it is, would deprive
police of flexibility to do their jobs right. And it criticizes criteria
in the plan meant to assess police compliance as vague."

They are not, and have
not been doing their jobs properly for decades. At least, since the
Democratic Convention of 1968. A half century of police brutality.
Abuse of authority. Determined ignorance of all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties. Precisely, why an unwanted dreaded second American
revolution catastrophically looms. Not just in Chicago, but across
our formerly great country.

"It asks Dow "to allow
state and local officials — and Chicago's brave front-line police officers
— to engage in flexible and localized efforts to advance the goal of safe,
effective, and constitutional policing in Chicago."

Called bullshit.
No more than a determinedly pernicious, rubber stamp of police brutality.
Abuse of authority. Presents an exigent threat to life, liberty,
all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

Think the Attorney General
isn't a clueless national socialist, fascist? Consider the following:

"The filing and Sessions'
comments came a week after jurors convicted white Chicago police officer
Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder for shooting black teen Laquan McDonald
16 times in 2014 as he walked away from police with a knife."

Clearly, the U.S. Attorney
General remains determinedly clueless, indifferent to raging violence imposed
by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Stone cold oblivious
to the fact no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal
element presents a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties than all levels and branches of nazi government, --
including the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. ... Right,
Sheriff?

"A video of the shooting,
released about a year later, sparked outage nationwide and led to an Obama
administration investigation of Chicago police, which was followed months
later by a damning report that found widespread police abuses."

Abuses our nazi U.S. Attorney
General remains determinedly oblivious to. Ignorant of. Then
again, can you reasonably expect any better from a racist out of control
nazi?

"The Department of Justice
Friday simultaneously announced the creation of a "Gun Crimes Prosecution
Team" at Chicago's U.S. attorney's office focused on gun crimes. The Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will assign five violent-crime
coordinators to work with federal prosecutors."

Jesus Christ. First
target of investigation needs to be law enforcement. Clean up this
problem first. So law enforcement regains some semblance of trustworthiness.
Currently has none, worse, losing ever more ground.

"Responding to the announcements,
a spokesman for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Matt McGrath, said the city
appreciated the additional resources, "but we don't appreciate efforts
... to impede our public safety reforms or inhibit our efforts to rebuild
the bonds of trust between officers and residents."

That's gone. Across
the country. Will be increasingly difficult to restore under the
Trump nazi and his sidekick, the Sessions nazi.

"Illinois Attorney Lisa
Madigan — without objection from Emanuel — sued the city last year to ensure
any police reforms would be overseen by a judge. That killed a draft plan
negotiated with Trump's administration that didn't envision a court role
in reforming the department and led to the ultimately successful talks
to create the current plan. The reform plan now on the table foresees far
stricter rules on the use of force by officers. One provision requires
officers to file paperwork each time they point their weapons, even if
they don't fire."

All a step in the right
direction, although nowhere near enough.

"Sessions again echoed
President Donald Trump, who told officers at a convention in Orlando on
Monday that a three-year-old agreement between Chicago and the American
Civil Liberties Union of Illinois to curb stop-and-frisk procedures by
police prevented officers from doing their jobs."

More insane horse shit
from this achingly clueless, racist Sessions nazi. Direct violation
of the United States Constitution, Bill of Rights. The abusive, criminal
jackbooted bastards in blue have no probable cause to routinely, proactively
unconstitutionally stop-and-frisk. Direct, intentional, determined
violation of the Fourth Amendment when there is no probable cause a crime
has indeed been committed. Raw nazism.

"When police are restrained
from using lawfully established policies ... when arrests went down, and
when their work and character were disrespected, crime surged," Sessions
said. "There must never be another consent decree that continues the folly
of the ACLU settlement."

The racist Sessions nazi
is hopelessly, determinedly insane. Has deliberately, concertedly
violated his oath of office to uphold the United States Constitution, including
the Bill of Rights. Think those arrests did not go down precisely
because
they were indeed false? The fact the bastards had no probable
cause to make them in the first place?

These policies were not
lawfully established. Remain in direct violation of the Bill of Rights.
Determinedly, perniciously ignored by the racist Sessions nazis and others
who think like him. This line of 'thinking' is precisely why an unwanted
dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms.

The "work
and character" of the criminal jackbooted
bastards in blue are rightfully disrespected, rightfully ridiculed
because they were and are phony. Sessions is too racist, too
nazi, too determinedly, concertedly clueless to be United States Attorney
General. This man presents an exigent threat to life, liberty, all
civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Determinedly so.
Perniciously, so. Unconstitutionally, so. Like the Trump nazi,
Sessions is a traitor.

"Chicago officials and
the ACLU have said those and similar claims by Trump administration officials
are exaggerated, get the data on crime in Chicago wrong and misstate the
underlying causes of crime."

No question, achingly
true. Determinedly, so. Forget? A nazi has no rationality.
No regard for the truth. No respect for the Constitution, Bill of
Rights. Only in determined abuse of power, traitorous obliteration
of all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"Karen Sheley, the director
of the police practices project at the ACLU of Illinois, said the move
Friday by the Trump administration to sink a plan in the works for over
a year was "a last-minute political play at the expense of real people
in our city."

What it is remains no
less than a traitorous, treacherous, treasonous abrogation of the United
States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. This regime is
great evil, highly reminiscent of Nazi Germany, circa 1933, when Adolf
Hitler became Chancellor. Far worse to come then, and now.

"The Trump Administration
and Sessions' Department of Justice have never attempted to learn about
the problems in Chicago or what reform is necessary," Sheley said in a
Friday statement."

Clearly, true. Moreover,
using it as an excuse to obliterate whatever is left of the United States
Constitution, Bill of Rights. This is great, unvarnished evil perpetrated
by this racist, nazi United States Attorney General and his fuhrer,
the Trump nazi.

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10-19-18

Highly reminiscent
of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors,
Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black
who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they
please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following.
It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly
great country once stood for. No longer.

County officials across
the country are beginning to step up and oppose the criminal jackbooted
bastards in ICE. NPR reports:

"While the aggressive
immigration enforcement policies of the Trump Administration continue nearly
unabated at the national level, activists on the left are succeeding on
a smaller scale as they convince local governments to end jail contracts
with ICE. Their hope is that shutting ICE out from the jails that hold
immigrants awaiting deportation and court hearings will pressure the Trump
administration to loosen its "zero-tolerance" policy toward undocumented
immigrants."

Not a chance. Our
nazi fuhrer and his equally psychotic henchmen will never give up.

"Local officials are yielding
to this scaled-down localized version of the #AbolishICE movement in both
liberal and conservative areas. In California, local governments in Contra
Costa County, Sacramento County and the city of Santa Ana recently pulled
out of their contracts with ICE. The same thing happened in Williamson
County, Texas, which will no longer hold immigrants come this January,
and in Atlanta, where the mayor issued an executive order to stop accepting
ICE detainees."

Surprising turn of events
in Williamson County, -- which has a well-earned reputation in Texas for
being home to a well-entrenched jackbooted bastard in blue mentality.
... Right, Sheriff?

"The latest success for
the movement was in Hudson County, New Jersey."

Another surprising venue
which has certainly changed over the years. Citizens are apparently
finally
getting tired of this crap.

"When local legislators
in diverse and Democratic Hudson County met in July to renew a long-standing
contract with the federal government to detain immigrants, they quietly
voted on the deal without so much as announcing it beforehand on the meeting
agenda."

Unbridled Aryan arrogance
of the nazi element in power.

"The resulting firestorm
blindsided the all-Democratic board of freeholders, which run the county.
A group of local religious leaders sued. Protests outside the Hudson County
Jail, which detains nearly 700 immigrants, grew so loud that the jail director
said the noise stirred a near riot in an immigrant wing of the facility.
Finally, last Thursday the freeholders voted 6-3 to end their multi-million-dollar
contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement by 2020."

LOL. There is hope.
People are tired of this ongoing nazi fiasco.

"We come to you tonight
because you do have the power — and it may not be a lot," said Carl Schwartz,
one of scores of ICE opponents to speak at the 4 1/2-hour freeholder meeting.
"It may be for one county, in one state, over one detention center. But
if we can get this thing shut down here in Hudson County we can show what
we really stand for in North Jersey."

About time. A new
day. Certainly, must have the Aryan arrogant, national socialist
element shitting in its pants. LOL. Doesn't your heart bleed?
Further evidence there is little difference between both major political
parties.

"Hudson County has a 43
percent foreign-born population and it's run entirely by Democrats, so
it is particularly vulnerable to scrutiny. Opposition is also mounting
in the two neighboring counties, Essex and Bergen, which are likewise filling
their jails with ICE detainees. Together the three counties hold as many
as 2,000 immigrants at a given time and collectively take in about $6 million
per month from ICE, a near 50 percent increase from the end of the Obama
administration, records show."

Blood money. These
criminal jackbooted bastard in blue assholes seem to have conveniently
forgotten our UNDOCUMENTED forebears arrived on this continent centuries
ago, STOLE this land from its native inhabitants, then BROKE every goddamned
treaty ever signed.

Can't stomach the truth?
Don't like the tone? Read another publication.

"Activists were arrested
earlier this year protesting the ICE contract in Essex County. And in Bergen
County, attention turned to how immigrants are forbidden from hugging their
visiting relatives after the sheriff who runs the jail resigned in the
wake of being caught on tape in a racist rant."

"Activists are, however,
frustrated that they're not making even more progress. The 2020 contract
expiration date that Hudson County freeholders approved last week didn't
satisfy a variety of advocates who say immigrants shouldn't be marooned
in the jail, where conditions have been described as "inhumane," for at
least two more years. They want the contract cancelled immediately, which
the freeholders have the power to do."

Here's the problem.
An endangered bottom line is at stake:

"But time is needed, freeholders
said, to find ways to make up for the tens of millions of dollars that
the county receives annually from ICE. "There's a strong possibility that
we'll phase out sooner [than 2020]," said Freeholder Anthony Romano. "So
it's not just rhetoric."

Tough shit. Should
have thought about that before inviting the ICE jackbooted bastards in.

"In the meantime, the
freeholders gave their support last week to two new oversight boards to
improve detainee treatment at the jail. The Hudson County Correctional
Facility has been plagued by problems — suicides, poor medical care, bad
food. But freeholders were floored when three recently released detainees
spoke at the meeting last week to tell of abuse they suffered there, including
sexual assault by other ICE inmates."

Law enforcement and the
jails at their very 'best.' Gulags in Nazi America.

"My experience at Hudson
was some of the worst of my life in my life," said Leisvel Gonzalez, a
25-year-old from Cuba. "I was a victim of rape." Gonzalez alleged that
he reported two incidents of rape to a corrections officer who works with
ICE, but nothing happened. He then pointed to the officer, who was in the
crowd at the meeting. The officer — a corrections department lieutenant
who is the jail's ICE liaison — confirmed that he was indeed told about
the incident."

Surprised he didn't lie
like hell, Sheriff? Isn't that what your boys would do, sir?

"The jail director, Ron
Edwards, then interjected to say he'd investigate the incidents. He added
that he has a zero tolerance policy for assaults."

Crock of shit from another
piece of human excrement who has no business being in corrections.

"But there's another wrinkle
to the situation for immigrants at the jail, who now make up the majority
of inmates. Almost all of them were picked up by ICE in New York, which
makes them eligible for pro bono legal representation provided through
city and state funds. With detainees moved out of Hudson County, they could
be sent far away, without access to their free attorneys. Immigrants without
lawyers are far likelier to be deported."

What webs we weave in
Nazi
America. ... Right, Sheriff?

"Families and lawyers
and their community are here," said Ryan Brewer of The Bronx Defenders,
a public defender agency that represents detainees. He said immigrants
need to be in proximity to legal resources to "to actually win their cases
and remain permanently in the United States, or obtain release on bond."

Can't have that, can we?
Wouldn't want to enforce the Constitution, would we? Certainly, not
in a fascist police-state, quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth
Reich.

"Others wanted to keep
the contract as it is. Democrats in Hudson County had initially argued
that the contract is necessary to keep taxes down and avoid layoffs of
public workers at the jail. Yvonne Balcer, 70, a lifelong resident of the
county seat, Jersey City, scolded the freeholders for shifting their priorities.
"Your job is to represent the taxpayers of Hudson County, not to represent
a social group!" she said. "And if you don't start putting us first we
will start electing those who put us first."

The job of the freeholders
is to enforce all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.
For all in this country. Remove your clueless head from your ass,
madam. Today, undocumented immigrants. Tomorrow, ignorant assholes
like you, madam?

No foreign power, no terrorist
organization, not even the criminal element presents a greater threat to
life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than all
branches and levels of government, -- including law enforcement.

Corruption within law
enforcement remains an existential threat to life, liberty, all civil and
constitutional rights and liberties. So what else is new? ...
Right,
Bill? Same old duplicitous, aggressively stupid shit occurs right
here in Nazi Llano County. ... Doesn't it, Sheriff?

Think it'll change any
time soon? Don't hold your breath, readers. Not how things
work in Nazi America, right, Sheriff? Highly reminiscent
of how your goons operate though, isn't it, Bill? Forget?
'Stupid is as stupid does.' F--ked up is f--ked up no matter where,
no matter how. Problem throughout all law enforcement.

Including right here in
Nazi Llano County, right, Sheriff? Too many officers clearly
have their heads securely lodged where the sun seldom shines. Egregious
insanity continues to be perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards
in blue. Ongoing issue. All over our formerly great country.

Not just in Dallas as
in the Guyger case, but all over the nation. No end to it.
Surprised? Why? In today's increasingly national socialist
climate anything goes, right, Bill? Live in a de facto fascist
police-state, quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's
Fourth Reich.
Certainly, a problem here in Nazi Llano County,
isn't it, Sheriff?
Your goons, however, aren't held accountable when they egregiously f--k
up. Ever.

Equally pointedly, why
hasn't Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764 been held criminally
accountable for egregious abuse of power involving denial of property rights
to a Kingsland property owner? To say nothing of consequent resultant
physical damage done to a motor home on that property.

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10-19-18

In follow up to the last
edition vis a vis the latest ongoing Israeli aggressor fiasco, CBS News
reports:

"An American graduate
student in detention at Israel's international airport over allegations
that she promotes a boycott of the Jewish state appealed her detention
Thursday before an Israeli court in Tel Aviv. Lara Alqasem appeared calm,
mostly keeping her hands on her knees during the court hearing, only smiling
giddily when she was surrounded by journalists and photographers. She is
to remain in detention until the court delivers its ruling; no date for
the ruling has been set."

This young woman stood
tall. Fearlessly, but peacefully, challenged the aggressor.
Uncommon valor.

"The 22-year-old American
with Palestinian grandparents landed at Ben-Gurion Airport last week with
a valid student visa and was registered to study human rights at Jerusalem's
Hebrew University. But she was barred from entering the country and ordered
deported, based on suspicions that she's an activist in the boycott movement.
Israel insists she can leave at any time but must renounce the BDS boycott
movement if she wishes to be reconsidered for admission."

F--k 'em. While
she may never consequently be granted entry, certainly is exposing the
fascists running Israel for precisely whom and what they are. Causing
them great embarrassment.

"Israel enacted a law
last year banning entry for any foreigner who "knowingly issues a public
call for boycotting Israel." It's come under heavy criticism for its handling
of Alqasem's case."

Rightfully, so.
Certainly, doing irreparable damage to its image internationally.
Aggressive stupidity at its very worst.

"Alqasem, from the Fort
Lauderdale suburb of Southwest Ranches, Florida, is a former president
of the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
The group is a branch of the BDS movement, whose name comes from its calls
for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel."

Rightfully, so.

"BDS supporters say that
in urging businesses, artists and universities to sever ties with Israel,
they are using nonviolent means to resist unjust policies toward Palestinians."

That's right. Israeli
citizens themselves are questioning what their leaders are doing vis a
vis the Palestinians. So are many Jews in the United States.
Again, rightfully so.

"Israel says the movement
masks its motives to delegitimize or destroy the Jewish state."

Israeli leaders themselves
have already been doing this for decades in their treatment of the Palestinians.
Remain too ignorant to understand these oppressive, brutal tactics are
counterproductive. Will eventually lead to precisely what they are
desperately trying to avoid, destruction of the State of Israel.

"Gilad Erdan, Israel's
minister for strategic affairs, described Students for Justice in Palestine
as an extremist organization. "We don't want to see their activists coming
to Israel and trying to use our infrastructure to harm us and destroy us,"
he said."

You're already doing this
to yourselves as well as the Palestinians. Have done so since 1948.
Status quo, not sustainable.

"Alqasem's lawyers say
she is no longer involved in BDS activity, and former professors have described
her as a curious and open-minded student. Jewish groups in the United States
as well as the Hebrew University itself have come to her defense."

Stunning, isn't it?
What are the nazis running Israel so afraid of?

"A pair of dovish Israeli
lawmakers also attending Thursday's hearing to protest Alqasem's lengthy
detention. Mussi Raz of Meretz called on Erdan to free her and stop a "snowball"
that is getting larger all the time. "Stop this circus, you are causing
grave damage to Israel's image," he said."

That's right. Aggressive
stupidity at its worst.

New readers are reminded
the United States, Europe, and the United States granted survivors of Hitler's
death camps the land mass of Palestine in 1948. -- Land the Israelites
lost generations ago due to their excesses. Executed this land grant
without consultation of the Palestinians. Precisely, why there's
armed conflict in the region ever since.

Reportedly, the Israeli's
bowed to intense international pressure. Released Alqasem.

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10-19-18

Another example of uncommon
valor. NPR reports:

"In Philadelphia, a battle
between local officials and the Trump administration is heating up."

Is it ever.

"In defiance of threats
from the Justice Department, public health advocates in Philadelphia have
launched a nonprofit to run a facility to allow people to use illegal drugs
under medical supervision. It is the most concrete step yet the city has
taken toward eventually opening a so-called supervised injection site."

About time. Lives
will be saved. Can't have that, can we?

"The non-profit, called
Safehouse, was formed after a political heavyweight, former Pennsylvania
governor, Ed Rendell, joined the board. In August deputy attorney general
Rod Rosenstein, told NPR that the Justice Department will not tolerate
the opening of a supervised injection site in Philadelphia. Rosenstein
said anyone involved in running one is "vulnerable to civil and criminal
enforcement."

... Hear the rumble?
An unwanted dreaded second American revolution has catastrophically loomed
for quite some time as our formerly great country continues to deteriorate,
nazify over the last fifty years or so.

"Rendell is unfazed. "I
have a message for Mr. Rosenstein: I'm the incorporator of the safe injection
site nonprofit and they can come and arrest me first," Rendell says."

"Opioid addiction has
worsened in Philadelphia and nationwide in recent years since the deadly
synthetic opioid fentanyl has caused a rise in overdose deaths. In Philadelphia
last year, 1,217 people died of overdoses, mostly from opioids."

Nazi Right, can't, won't
be confused with the truth.

"Most of them died alone
in the year 2017. It's the highest rate per capita of any big city in America,"
says Rendell, noting that the city has one of the worst per capita overdose
rates, only surpassed by the county that includes Pittsburgh. "We got to
do something to stop it."

A supervised injection
site will certainly lower the number of drug deaths from overdose.
Step in the right direction if followed by ready access to treatment of
addiction.

"Rendell, a former mayor
and district attorney of Philadelphia and author of A Nation of Wusses:
How America's Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great, says sometimes you
have to ignore bad laws in order to pursue good policy."

Certainly, part of our
history. Last sixty years of the Civil Rights movement offers salient
proof positive.

"It's easy to say, 'It's
the law, I'm sorry, guys, I can't do it. It's the law. I'm sworn to uphold
the law," he says. "Look, the history of this country is about change brought
about by people having the courage to say, 'This law makes no sense.' "

Exactly, right.
Never seems to change. Mindless law. Not well thought out.
Not well-enforced. Aggressive stupidity at its very worst.
Certainly, one of the reasons why our formerly great country is coming
apart at the seams.

"Rendell says his brazen
position takes him back in time to the early 1990s when he was mayor and
welcomed Philadelphia's first needle exchange during the AIDS crisis. Back
then, state officials said they would shut it down because it violated
drug paraphernalia laws, yet Rendell promised to be the first arrested.
A crackdown never materialized. And health officials estimate the move
helped drive down new HIV cases in the city more than 95 percent since
1992."

Can't confuse the nazi
element in our formerly great country with the truth, can we?

"But offering clean needles
to drug users is one thing. Inviting them into a building to use illegal
opioids is a different matter entirely."

No question. Use
drugs? You're stupid. Yet, if addicted, have no choice.
This is a step in the right direction.

"Ronda Goldfein, executive
director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, is another board member
of Safehouse, the new nonprofit. She agrees that it is a divisive idea,
but the model has saved lives in Canada and Europe."

Wouldn't want to confuse
the yellow-bellied Nazi Right with the truth, would we?

"The idea is if today
we can prevent that fatal overdose and we can build that relationship of
trust, then maybe tomorrow, or even later today, we can encourage that
person to get into treatment," Goldfein says."

Can certainly make the
attempt. Better than nothing other than an unsustainable status quo.

"Although 100 such sites
operate worldwide, the United States has none. Philadelphia, Goldfein says,
might just be the first to officially open one. "We recognize that there
are many aspects of addressing the opioid epidemic and we can have an impact
on one small piece," Goldfein says. "The thing we all know is you have
to survive in order to get into treatment, so if we can keep people alive
for one more day, then it's one more day of a possibility that people will
enter treatment and get their lives back."

As repeatedly stated in
this publication, prohibition of alcohol gave us the Mafia. Drug
prohibition corrupted every law enforcement agency in this country to at
least some extent. Done nothing to curb drug use. In fact,
quite the opposite. Time for change. Desperately needed change.

"At the facility, participants
will receive a physical and mental health assessment before entering a
room in which they can use the illegal drugs under the watch of medical
professionals. They will be provided with fentanyl test strips — so they
can see the makeup of their drugs — and clean equipment. After they use,
they will be directed to another room where they can talk to staff members
about social services, including housing needs and referrals to primary
care, according to the group's internal documents. Although the site would
be in violation of state and federal law, including the federal "crack
house" statute that criminalizes maintaining a place for the use of a controlled
substance."

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"It was surreal moment
even for a White House accustomed to surreal moments. During a meeting
with President Trump, Kanye West delivered animated and wide-ranging remarks
on issues from the 13th Amendment to U.S. manufacturing. West spoke to
reporters for nearly 10 minutes in the Oval Office. Wearing a red "Make
America Great Again" hat, he repeatedly complimented Trump, who nodded
in agreement."

Bet he did.
LOL.

"West said he loved everyone
— including Trump's former presidential rival, Hillary Clinton — but he
said he could relate to Trump's "male energy." "It was something about
when I put this hat on, it made me feel like Superman," West said. "You
made a Superman cape for me, also, as someone who looks up to you ... looks
up to American industry guys." After West finished speaking, Trump, who
is known for his own stream-of consciousness speaking style, said, "I tell
you what — that was pretty impressive." "That was quite something," Trump
added. West was joined in the Oval Office by legendary football player
and activist Jim Brown."

Who's minding the store?

The Washington Post
reports:

"For more than 10 minutes
Thursday, President Trump was struck nearly speechless as rapper, activist,
entrepreneur and MAGA-hat wearing, Trump-loving, dragon-energy-exuding
Kanye West held forth in an Oval Office soliloquy that included an f-bomb,
references to male genitalia and a presidential hug that looked more like
a mauling."

Who'd 'a 'thunk' it?
LOL.

"West, slouched in a chair
facing the president, called himself a “crazy mother- (expletive)” and
rued the “bull- (expletive)” the president endures. He called the 72-year-old
president “bro.” He wore no tie and he kept the red hat on throughout."

Think it didn't make the
Trump nazi proud? LOL.

"The office is no stranger
to blue language — cue the Richard Nixon tapes — but West’s often incoherent
performance occurred before reporters and cameras. Republicans have long
groused that former Democratic president Bill Clinton disrespected the
Oval Office with pizza parties and his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky,
and complained that former Democratic president Barack Obama was photographed
with his feet up on the desk and didn’t always wear a coat and tie like
his predecessor, George W. Bush."

Nothing quite like hypocrisy,
is there? LOL. ... Or, a little comic relief for that matter.
One idiot leading another.

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10-19-18

Hard to believe it's been
twenty years. The Washington Post reports:

"His family didn’t bury
his remains after Shepard was beaten and left to die near Laramie, Wyo.,
out of concern that the site would be desecrated.

"When Matthew Shepard
died on a cold night 20 years ago, after being beaten with a pistol butt
and tied to a split-rail wood fence, his parents cremated the 21-year-old
and kept his ashes, for fear of drawing attention to a resting place of
a person who was a victim of one of the nation’s worst anti-gay hate crimes.
But now with the anniversary of their son’s murder approaching on Friday,
the Shepards have decided to inter his remains inside the crypt at Washington
National Cathedral, where gay-equality activists say they can be a prominent
symbol and even a pilgrimage destination for the movement. Although the
cause of LGBT equality has made historic advancements since Shepherd was
killed, it remains divisive in many parts of a country reembracing tribalism
of all kinds.

"Savagely beaten and left
to die, Shepard was found almost 18 hours later by a bicyclist who thought
his limp body was a scarecrow. Shepard died a few days later, on Oct. 12.
On Oct. 26, his ashes will be placed in a niche in the crypt columbarium,
a private, off-limits area on the lower level of the massive Gothic cathedral,
which is the seat of the Episcopal Church and a popular spot for high-profile
national spiritual events. Shepard, who had been active in the Episcopal
Church, will be one of about 200 people interred at the cathedral in the
past century. Others include President Woodrow Wilson; Helen Keller and
her teacher Anne Sullivan; and Navy Adm. George Dewey, said cathedral spokesman
Kevin Eckstrom. Although visitors will not be able to access the crypt,
cathedral officials are considering installing a plaque that they can view
and touch, similar to one in Braille installed for Keller."

"The remains of Matthew
Shepard, whose death became an important symbol in the fight against homophobia
— and whose name is on a key U.S. hate-crime law — will be interred at
Washington National Cathedral later this month. Shepard's parents say they're
"proud and relieved to have a final resting place for Matthew's ashes."
"This is incredibly meaningful for our family and for everyone who has
known him," Judy and Dennis Shepard said in a statement emailed to NPR.
"We'd been looking for just the right place to finally put Matt to rest,
and we think this is the perfect fit and the perfect time."

"The Washington National
Cathedral says it is "honored and humbled to receive the earthly remains
of Matthew Shepard and entrust them to God." "While Matthew died too young,"
the cathedral said, "his death nonetheless gave life to a new generation
of activists and allies who are committed to proclaiming God's love for
all of God's children — no exceptions or exclusions."

Indeed.

"His parents say they
hope his spot inside the cathedral will become a place where people can
visit and "reflect on creating a safer, kinder world." The Washington National
Cathedral, which has served for decades as the place where the U.S. mourns
and remembers presidents and other influential Americans, will honor Shepard
on Oct. 26 in a public service that will be streamed online at 10 a.m.
Eastern time. Shepard's ashes will then be placed in the cathedral crypt,
in a private ceremony. For the Shepards, the decision to entrust their
son's remains to the cathedral ends decades of uncertainty. It was a complicated
process, they said, citing both their personal wishes and their son's role
as a symbol in the fight for gay rights."

Imagine the anguish of
his parents:

"In a statement shared
by the foundation that bears their son's name, the Shepards said: "When
Matt was taken from us, we hadn't had any death or plot plans. We were
living overseas at the time, and from a practical standpoint, we did not
want our son to be put to rest on the other side of the world. We didn't
want to leave him in Wyoming to be a point of pilgrimage that may be a
nuisance to other families in a cemetery. We didn't want to open up the
option for vandalism. So we had him cremated and held onto the urn until
we figured out the proper thing to do. "We're comforted to know he will
be among other Americans who have done so much for our country."

Indeed, he will be.

"Judy and Dennis Shepard
concluded their note by thanking people who have supported their family
and fought to celebrate diversity and compassion over the past two decades.
And in a nod to the upcoming midterm elections, they added, "Vote for Matt
in November." Here's how Judy Shepard remembered her son in a 2010 interview
with NPR: "Well, he was a 21-year-old college student who, like most college
students I remember in my past, drank too much and didn't study enough.
He was gay and out and proud of who he was and who he was becoming. He
had a smile, like all mothers say, that would light up a room, great sense
of humor, very empathetic and kind, really cared about humanity."

"Shepard will join some
200 people whose remains have been interred in the cathedral over the past
100 years. Others include President Woodrow Wilson, Helen Keller and her
teacher Anne Sullivan, and Adm. George Dewey."

Think as a country we'll
ever be able to get past homophobic hatred?

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10-19-18

Let you decide what you
think about the following. CBS News reports:

"First lady Melania Trump,
whose "Be Best" campaign focuses on the well-being and bullying prevention
efforts of young children across the country, says she considers herself
to be one of the "most bullied" people in the world. In excerpts of a wide-ranging
interview set to air on ABC News on Friday, Trump also discussed an environment
of distrust in the White House as an area of concern. "I could say that
I'm the most bullied person on [sic] the world," the first lady said. "One
of them -- if you really see what people are saying about me." She said
the personal connection is one reason that led her to focus on educating
children on best practices for social media and online behavior. Trump
did not cite specific examples of acts of bullying against her."

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10-19-18

Think the following isn't
a growing problem? The Washington Post reports:

"A small but increasing
number of children in the United States are not getting some or all of
their recommended vaccinations. The percentage of children under 2 years
old who haven’t received any vaccinations has quadrupled in the last 17
years, according to federal health data released Thursday. Overall, immunization
rates remain high and haven’t changed much at the national level. But a
pair of reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about
immunizations for preschoolers and kindergartners highlights a growing
concern among health officials and clinicians about children who aren’t
getting the necessary protection against vaccine-preventable diseases,
such as measles, whooping cough and other pediatric infectious diseases."

Think the following can't
or won't have serious ramifications?

"The vast majority of
parents across the country vaccinate their children and follow recommended
schedules for this basic preventive practice. But the recent upswing in
vaccine skepticism and outright refusal to vaccinate has spawned communities
of undervaccinated children who are more susceptible to disease and pose
health risks to the broader public."

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10-19-18

Death knell of the death
penalty? The Washington Post reports:

"The Washington state
Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down the death penalty there
as unconstitutional and “racially biased,” a ruling that makes it the latest
in a string of states to abandon capital punishment in recent years. The
order will not stop any scheduled executions because Washington state has
already frozen its death penalty under a moratorium by Gov. Jay Inslee
(D) in 2014. But the court’s order, which declares that death sentences
in the state should be converted to life in prison, is a sweeping rejection
of capital punishment at a time when it is being used less nationwide and
as states are struggling to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections."

Apparently, times are
a changing. ... Or, are they?

"In their opinion, the
justices focused on what they said was the unequal use of the death penalty,
describing it as a punishment meted out haphazardly depending on little
more than geography or timing."

Been a problem for decades.
Ongoing issue since the Sixties.

“The death penalty is
invalid because it is imposed in an arbitrary and racially biased manner,”
the justices wrote. “While this particular case provides an opportunity
to specifically address racial disproportionality, the underlying issues
that underpin our holding are rooted in the arbitrary manner in which the
death penalty is generally administered.”

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10-19-18

Careful with dietary supplements.
The
Washington Post reports:

"Researchers found unapproved
and sometimes dangerous drugs in 746 dietary supplements, almost all of
them marketed for sexual enhancement, weight loss or muscle growth, a new
analysis published Friday shows. The review of a Food and Drug Administration
database of contaminated supplements for the years 2007 to 2016 most commonly
turned up sildenafil — the drug sold as Viagra — and other erectile dysfunction
drugs in sex enhancement products; sibutramine and the laxative phenolphthalein,
both banned by the FDA, in weight loss supplements; and steroids or their
analogues in muscle-building products. About 80 percent of the supplements
were contaminated by one pharmaceutical that should not have been in the
product. Twenty percent contained at least two such drugs, and two of the
supplements contained six unapproved drugs. One product contained a drug
that raises blood pressure and another drug that lowers it. Despite these
contaminants, fewer than half the products were recalled."

Imagine that.

"The presence of unknown
drugs in supplements “poses a serious public health risk,” the researchers
wrote. More than 50 percent of the U.S. population consumes dietary supplements,
and many consumers mistakenly believe the products are carefully regulated
and accurately labeled."

At prices charged, think
users aren't entitled to at least some government oversight of these products?
At minimum, to content, purity?

"The drugs found in the
supplements have “the potential to cause serious adverse health effects
owing to accidental misuse, overuse or interaction with other medications,
underlying health conditions or other pharmaceuticals,” the researchers
wrote."

NPR reports:

"The Food and Drug Administration
has identified hundreds of supplements tainted with pharmaceuticals — from
antidepressants and erectile dysfunction remedies to weight-loss drugs
— since 2007, a study published Friday shows. Even after FDA tests proved
the supplements contained unapproved or recalled medications, many of the
products continued to be marketed and sold, the analysis finds."

Why?

"The report in JAMA Network
Open calls into question the FDA's ability to effectively police the $35-billion-a-year
supplements industry. "The FDA didn't even bother to recall more than half
of the potentially hazardous supplements," says Dr. Pieter Cohen, a Harvard
Medical School professor and an internist with Cambridge Health Alliance
in Boston, who wrote an accompanying commentary in the journal. "How could
it be that our premier public health agency spends the time and money to
detect these hidden ingredients and then doesn't take the next obvious
step, which is to ensure that they are removed from the marketplace?" he
asks."

"Although the FDA has
the power to recall tainted supplements, the federal agency failed to require
any of the 146 companies that manufactured the adulterated products to
remove them from the market."

Imagine that.

"In 360 cases, manufacturers
announced a voluntarily recall of the tainted supplements, though there
is no way of knowing if the products actually were recalled, Cohen says."

Convenient, no?

"In 342 cases, the agency
posted a notice on its website warning the public about the tainted supplements."

Why weren't they ordered
removed?

"Only in seven cases did
the FDA issue a warning letter nudging the manufacturer to remove the adulterated
products. Before the FDA could seize a supplement and destroy it, it would
have to send a warning letter to the manufacturer, Cohen says. The study's
authors write that they find it "alarming" that the adulterated supplements
continue to be sold."

Wake up.
Someone's being paid off.

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10-19-18

Someone's lying.
Guess who? The Washington Post reports:

"Commerce Secretary Wilbur
Ross recalled talking with former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon
and Attorney General Jeff Sessions about adding a citizenship question
to the 2020 Census, according to a document filed Thursday by the Justice
Department, though he testified to Congress that he had not done so. The
document, part of a multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration
over the question, said Ross recalls Bannon calling him in the spring of
2017 to ask whether Ross would speak to Kansas Secretary of State Kris
Kobach about ideas for a possible citizenship question on the census. The
document appears to contradict Ross’s testimony to Congress this year.
When asked at a hearing on March 20 by Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y) whether
the president or anyone in the White House had discussed the citizenship
question with him, Ross said, “I am not aware of any such.”

NPR reports:

"Commerce Secretary Wilbur
Ross now recalls speaking with a White House official about the possibility
of adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. That's according to
a new court document from the administration's attorneys that confirms
conversations between senior officials during the early months of the Trump
administration. This disclosure backtracks Ross' congressional testimony
in March. As the head of the Commerce Department, Ross oversees the Census
Bureau and approved adding a controversial question about U.S. citizenship
status to forms for the upcoming national head count. "Has the president
or anyone in the White House discussed with you or anyone on your team
about adding the citizenship question?" Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., asked
Ross during a House Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related
Agencies Subcommittee hearing on March 20. "I am not aware of any such,"
Ross testified."

Think so?

"We are responding solely
to the Department of Justice's request," Ross replied during the March
20 hearing after Rep. José Serrano, D-N.Y., asked whether President
Trump or anyone else at the White House directed him to add a question
about citizenship status. Revelations in the document released Thursday,
as well as documents previously released as part of the six lawsuits the
Trump administration is facing over the citizenship question, demonstrate
that was not the case. They contradict a timeline Ross described to Congress
of how the question was added to the census."

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10-19-18

Honor? Principle?
Class? What's that? NPR reports:

"A Republican congressman
who should have waltzed to re-election is now in the fight of his career.
Duncan Hunter, who has represented an inland Southern California district
for a decade, was indicted in August on charges of using a quarter of a
million dollars in campaign funds for personal expenses."

Unbridled greed.
Aryan arrogance to delusionally believe he could get away with it unnoticed.
Worse? Get this:

"As the race grows tighter,
Hunter is attacking his Democratic challenger for his Palestinian heritage.
A controversial television ad accuses Ammar Campa-Najjar of trying to "infiltrate"
Congress. It says that Campa-Najjar changed his name to hide his family's
connection to terrorism. It points out that his grandfather was part of
the deadly attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics."

Jesus Christ. Not
only is this piece of human excrement cluelessly Aryan arrogant, worse?
Remains devoid of all principle.

"Campa-Najjar never knew
his grandfather, who was killed by Israeli agents 16 years before the candidate
was born. This is just one of the commercial's questionable associations.
The Washington Post's Fact Checker gave the ad its worst rating: 4 Pinocchios,
which it defines as "a whopper."

A liar.

"Hunter was not available
for an interview, and he has had no public campaign events during the time
NPR reported on the race. But in remarks last month to a GOP women's group,
he again made Campa-Najjar's name sound shady. "He changed his name from
Ammar Yasser Najjar to Ammar Campa-Najjar," said Hunter, "so he sounds
Hispanic. ... That is how hard, by the way, that the radical Muslims are
trying to infiltrate the U.S. government." Actually, Ammar Campa-Najjar
is Christian. And Campa is his Hispanic mother's family name."

Jesus Christ. Wouldn't
want to confuse a Republican national socialist, fascist with the truth,
would we? Adolf and Benito would have been proud of this piece of
crap. Think this fascist has any regard for the truth? Get
this. Consider it carefully:

"Hunter argues that it
is Obama administration holdovers in the Justice Department wielding their
influence who are responsible for his current legal troubles. As he told
a reporter from KGTV, the Department of Justice "is the Democrats' arm
of law enforcement. That's what's happening right now. It's happening with
Trump and it's happening with me, and we're going to fight through it and
win."

Think so? Wake
up:

"Another fact check: The
United States attorney who approved the 60 criminal charges against Hunter
is a Trump administration appointee."

Italics, mine.

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"The White House is actively
considering plans that could again separate parents and children at the
U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting
to cross illegally into the United States, according to several administration
officials with direct knowledge of the effort."

ABC News reports:

"A leading Republican
critic of President Donald Trump slammed a reported proposal for the U.S.
to resume separating migrant and refugee families at the U.S. border, saying
such a policy "simply is un-American." Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., responded
to a question from ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on "This
Week" Sunday about a report that the White House is weighing a new effort
to separate families at the border in hopes of reducing the number of people
trying to enter the country illegally."

The Trump nazi is incapable
of smartening up:

"The president on Saturday
commented on the proposal, which was first reported by The Washington Post.
"If they feel there will be separation, they don't come," Trump said."

Not true. Keep coming
regardless. For damned good reason. Their lives are threatened
by the regimes they're living under. Another delusional lie from
the congenital liar occupying the Oval Office.

"Stephanopoulos asked
Flake about the timing considering that a new ABC News/Washington Post
poll shows Democrats have a big edge over Republicans on who voters trust
to handle immigration. "Is the president making a mistake here?" Stephanopoulos
said. Flake responded, "Yes, he is. We shouldn’t bring that policy back.
That, that simply is un-American, and I think everybody recognized that.
The president seemed to. Certainly the first lady and others spoke directly
against it."

The Trump nazi can't,
won't be confused by the truth.

"In an exclusive interview
with ABC's Tom Llamas last week, first lady Melania Trump said the administration's
earlier family separation policy was "unacceptable." "It was unacceptable
for me to see children and parents separated," the first lady said. "It
was heartbreaking. And I reacted with my own voice."

She did. ... At
least, on this issue.

The following is interesting.
Certainly, indicative even Republicans are having issues with the Trump
nazi. Get this:

"With midterm elections
approaching in just over three weeks, Flake said in an interview with C-SPAN
this week that he hopes somebody runs against Trump in the Republican primary
in 2020."

Imagine that. LOL.

More striking? Get
this:

"Stephanopoulos asked
Flake if he agrees with commentator George Will's call for conservatives
to vote for Democrats in the midterms as a check on Trump. The Arizona
senator, who will leave office in January after choosing not to run for
re-election, said he hopes Republicans can be a check on the president
while still holding a majority in Congress. "I think that Republicans need
to provide that check, and that's what our system of government does, and
I hope that they can without a change in who controls Congress," Flake
said. "But I think that that may be coming if you believe the conventional
wisdom, and I kind of do: The House will likely flip [to Democratic control];
the Senate will remain in Republican hands."

We'll see.

"Flake also commented
on the public's view of the confirmation of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
According to the new ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday, a majority
of Americans believe that the Senate Judiciary Committee did not do enough
to investigate the claims made by Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh
of sexual assault when they were teenagers.The poll also found that a majority
of Americans want more congressional inquiry into Kavanaugh."

Gross understatement.

"Flake, a Judiciary Committee
member, had demanded an investigation of allegations that arose during
the confirmation process of sexual assault and sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh
during high school and college. After the FBI conducted a supplemental
background investigation of the nominee, Flake joined the Senate majority
in approving Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court."

Rank gutlessness.

Worse? The following
clueless horse shit:

"I know a lot of people
wanted [the supplemental investigation] to be more broad," Flake said.
"I would have liked to have started it earlier and had it more broad, but
it was a good investigation. And I think we’re in a better place than we
would have been" without the additional investigation."

"Flake added that he doesn't
think Congress should hold any additional investigations into Kavanaugh
or into how Ford's allegation became public. Ford's said he had that while
the confirmation was an "awful process," he doesn't believe that Congress
should conduct any further investigations to Kavanaugh nor the leak of
Christine Blasey Ford's letter. "I don't think that we should move forward,
the Congress certainly, with additional investigations," he said."

'Hear no evil, see
no evil, speak no evil.' Should the House be retaken by Democrats,
the Kavanaugh nazi needs to be impeached. Tried in the Senate.
Would certainly generate a far more comprehensive investigation.

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10-19-18

The military continues
to have problems with sexual assault. NBC News reports:

"A Navy admiral is under
review for waiting to remove a member of his staff after complaints from
several female employees and a civilian that they were assaulted and harassed
during a company Christmas party. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson
waited four months to remove the officer, Cmdr. Chris Servello, after receiving
allegations that Servello had assaulted a woman and harassed another at
a Pentagon Christmas party for Navy public affairs officials in 2016, the
Pentagon Inspector Attorney General's office stated in a report obtained
by NBC News."

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10-19-18

Not clear yet where the
following is going. We'll see. No matter what, remains horrendous.
The
Washington Post reports:

"President Trump vowed
“severe punishment” for Saudi Arabia if the United States determines that
Saudi agents killed Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, calling
the journalist’s suspected murder “really terrible and disgusting.” In
excerpts of a new interview released Saturday morning, Trump said that
the incident is being investigated and that the Saudis deny any involvement,
despite the mounting evidence that the Saudi regime was implicated in Khashoggi’s
disappearance last week. “Well, nobody knows yet, but we’ll probably be
able to find out,” Trump said in the interview with Lesley Stahl of CBS’s
“60 Minutes,” which will air in full Sunday night. “It’s being investigated,
it’s being looked at very, very strongly. And we would be very upset and
angry if that were the case. As of this moment, they deny it, and they
deny it vehemently. Could it be them? Yes.” Trump added, “We’re going to
get to the bottom of it, and there will be severe punishment.”

If this turns out to be
true, time to end all import of oil from Saudi Arabia. Certainly,
no longer need it. Forget? Our country now exports more oil
than it imports. These bastards have been f--king the United States
since January 1973. Looting us blind. Now this.

CBS News reports:

"President Donald Trump
said in an interview with 60 Minutes that the Saudis could be behind the
disappearance of missing journalist and Washington Post contributor Jamal
Khashoggi, and if so, the U.S. would inflict "severe punishment." In a
clip broadcast on "CBS This Morning," Mr. Trump said there is a lot at
stake "and maybe especially so because this man was a reporter."

"Mr. Trump said the Saudis
denied "in every way you can imagine" having anything to do with Khashoggi's
disappearance when his son-in-law Jared Kushner spoke with Saudi Arabia's
crown prince. But Mr. Trump said the country may still be responsible and
an investigation is ongoing. "Could it be them? Yes," the president said.
When asked what kind of punishments he may pursue if Saudi Arabia is found
to be behind the disappearance, Mr. Trump wouldn't commit to sanctions
or cutting sales of military equipment to Saudi from American companies.
"I'll tell you what I don't want to do," Mr. Trump said, "I don't want
to hurt jobs. I don't want to lose an order like that. And you know what,
there are other ways of punishing." "There's a lot at stake," Mr. Trump
continued. "And, maybe especially so because this man was a reporter. There's
something, you'll be surprised to hear me say that, there's something really
terrible and disgusting about that if that was the case."

Think the 'president'
intellectually capable of properly responding to this crisis?

"Saudi Arabia warned Sunday
it will respond to any “threats” against it as its stock market plunged
following President Donald Trump’s warning of “severe punishment” over
the disappearance of U.S.-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi."

Think Trump serious?
... Or, just talking out the ass. Likely the latter since the clueless
bastard remains unwilling to stop selling arms to this aggressor.

"Mr. Trump made a point
of visiting the kingdom on his first overseas trip as president and has
touted arms sales to Saudi Arabia."

Forget? The Saudis
have been egregiously looting the United States since their oil embargo
of 1973.

"But both the White House
and the kingdom are under mounting pressure as concern grows over the fate
of the veteran journalist and critic of the Saudi government, who vanished
Oct. 2 after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul."

Apparently, he was murdered
by these bastards.

"Already, international
business leaders are pulling out of the kingdom’s upcoming investment forum,
a high-profile event known as “Davos in the Desert.”

Positive development.
Drain the bastards dry.

“The kingdom affirms its
total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it, whether by
threatening to impose economic sanctions, using political pressures or
repeating false accusations,” said the statement published by the state-run
Saudi Press Agency on Sunday."

Cut off all trade.
Don't buy their oil. Stick it to the bastards.

“The kingdom also affirms
that if it receives any action, it will respond with greater action, and
that the kingdom’s economy has an influential and vital role in the global
economy.”

Time for that to change.

"The statement from the
world’s top oil exporter came after the Tadawul exchange in Riyadh dropped
by 7 percent at one point during the week’s first day of trading, with
182 of its 186 listed stocks showing losses by the early afternoon. The
market clawed back some of the losses, closing down 3.5 percent for the
day."

Doesn't your heart bleed?

"Turkish officials say
they fear Saudi agents killed and dismembered Mr. Khashoggi after he entered
the consulate, saying they have audio and video recordings of it that they
have not released."

Savages. These are
the very same vicious bastards who have in the past beheaded royalty caught
engaging in adultery. A Saudi princess.

"The kingdom has called
the allegations “baseless,” but has offered no evidence the writer ever
left the consulate."

How could they?
He didn't. No evidence he did. Amazingly, they delusionally
apparently believed they could get away with it.

"According to the Associated
Press, in an interview to be aired Sunday, Mr. Trump told CBS’ “60 Minutes”
that the consequences of Saudi Arabia being involved would be “severe.”
“There’s something really terrible and disgusting about that, if that was
the case, so we’re going to have to see,” he said. “We’re going to get
to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment.”

How so? The Trump
nazi remains unwilling to stop selling the bastards weapons. Despite
the fact these weapons are being used to kill foreign civilians.
Forget? To the Trump nazi, business comes first. Principle?
Non-existent to the lunatic nazi.

"However, Mr. Trump in
the same interview said: “As of this moment, they deny it and they deny
it vehemently. Could it be them? Yes.”

"Mr. Trump also said “we
would be punishing ourselves” by canceling arms sales to Saudi Arabia,
which his administration touted on his first overseas trip. The sale is
a “tremendous order for our companies,” and if the kingdom doesn’t buy
its weaponry from the U.S., they will buy it from others, he said. Mr.
Trump said he would meet with Khashoggi’s family."

Any excuse at all.
Forget? Money trumps principle in the world of the Trump nazi.

"American lawmakers in
both parties have been more critical of Saudi Arabia, with several suggesting
officials in the kingdom could be sanctioned if they were found to be involved
in Mr. Khashoggi’s disappearance and alleged killing. On Sunday, Sen. Marco
Rubio, Florida Republican, said the Trump administration should skip the
Saudi’s upcoming international investors conference."

Nowhere near good enough.

"Mr. Khashoggi, who was
considered close to the Saudi royal family, had become a critic of the
current government and Prince Mohammed, the 33-year-old heir apparent who
has shown little tolerance for criticism. As a journalist, Mr. Khashoggi
has written extensively about Saudi Arabia, including criticism of its
war in Yemen, its recent diplomatic spat with Canada and its arrest of
women’s rights activists after the lifting of a ban on women driving. Those
policies are all seen as initiatives of the crown prince, who has also
presided over a roundup of activists and businessmen."

Time to cut off the Saudis.
Do the right thing after all these decades.

"Mr. Trump has repeatedly
criticized Saudi Arabia and King Salman over rising global oil prices.
Benchmark Brent crude now trades above $80 and U.S. gasoline prices have
risen ahead of the midterm elections. Earlier this month, Mr. Trump suggested
Saudi Arabia’s king “might not be there for two weeks” without U.S. military
support."

Trump continues to talk
out both sides his ass. Has no credibility. None.

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10-19-18

Think the military isn't
treacherously taking a raucous hard dump on its own, and family survivors?
NBC
News reports:

"More than four years
after Navy Lt. Rebekah Daniel bled to death within hours of childbirth
at a Washington state military hospital, her husband still doesn’t know
exactly how — or why — it happened."

Why not?
He's entitled to this information.

"Walter Daniel, a former
Coast Guard officer, demanded explanations from officials at the Naval
Hospital Bremerton, where his wife, known as Moani, died on March 9, 2014.
He says he got none. No results from a formal review of the incident, no
details about how the low-risk pregnancy of a healthy 33-year-old woman
— a labor and delivery nurse herself — ended in heartbreak, leaving their
newborn daughter, Victoria, now 4, without a mom."

Who is the military determined
to protect?

“There was no timeline,
no records of what steps were taken,” recalled Daniel, 39, sitting in his
Seattle lawyer’s office last month. “I’ve had no answers.” Daniel, who
now lives in Dublin, Calif., filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in 2015, but
it was dismissed, as were subsequent appeals. The dismissals were based
not on the facts of the case but on what’s known as the Feres doctrine,
a 68-year-old federal ruling that bars active-duty military members from
suing the federal government for injuries."

Including information?

"This week, Daniel is
taking his quest for answers to the U.S. Supreme Court. Through his lawyer,
he petitioned the high court on Thursday to amend the 1950 ruling, creating
an exception that would allow service members to sue for medical malpractice
the same way civilians can."

Think that unreasonable?

"The military health system,
with 54 hospitals and 377 medical clinics, serves about 9.4 million beneficiaries,
including nearly 1.4 million active-duty members. “I don’t want this to
happen to any other family,” Daniel said."

The following is quite
interesting:

"The Supreme Court hasn’t
considered the Feres doctrine in more than 30 years, since the 1987 case
U.S. v. Johnson, where the justices ruled 5-4 to uphold the ruling. That
decision drew a scathing dissent from Justice Antonin Scalia, who declared
that the rule should be scrapped. “Feres was wrongly decided and heartily
deserves the widespread, almost universal criticism it has received,” Scalia
famously wrote."

See, readers, the
Scalia nazi was indeed right about a few issues. LOL.

"Since then, however,
the court has refused to accept at least two petitions that would have
allowed reconsideration of Feres. And chances are slim now. Of the 7,000
to 8,000 cases submitted to the Supreme Court each term, only about 80
are accepted. But Daniel and his lawyer, Andrew Hoyal of the Luvera law
firm in Seattle, insist that the circumstances of Moani Daniel’s death
warrant new scrutiny. “We thought if we’re ever going to take a shot at
the Feres doctrine, this is the case to do it,” Hoyal said. “It was clear
negligence. It was an awful situation. And every civilian in the country
would be able to bring a lawsuit to get accountability, except for members
of the service."

That's right. Members
of the military and their families should not be considered second
class citizens. A terrible injustice.

“She was treated differently
because she had lieutenant’s bars.”

That's outrageous.

"Daniel disputes the findings
of a Navy autopsy concluding that Rebekah Daniel died of “natural” causes
possibly linked to an amniotic fluid embolism, a rare, hard-to-prove complication
of childbirth. Daniel claims that his wife — who worked in the maternity
unit where she delivered her baby — died from botched medical care that
failed to stop her from hemorrhaging nearly a third of the blood in her
body. “It was utter chaos,” he recalled. “I remember multiple towels and
sponges like they were trying to soak up the blood … but it kept coming.”
Doctors failed to perform vital tests, to employ an obstetrical balloon
— a standard device used to halt postpartum hemorrhage — and to start massive
blood transfusions until too late, court documents claim. Just four hours
after the birth of her 8-pound, 7-ounce daughter, Moani was dead. “I was
in shock,” recalled Daniel."

The military continues
to stonewall:

"Capt. Jeffrey Bitterman,
commanding officer of Naval Hospital Bremerton, said in an email that the
circumstances of Moani’s death were “thoroughly examined in a quality review
process.” The results of the review cannot be publicly released, he said,
declining to comment further because of pending litigation. However, in
a press release promoting the Aloha Moani 5K run organized in Daniel’s
honor, Navy officials publicly said she died “due to a rare complication
of childbirth.”

Sad, isn't it? Especially,
since her husband has received no reasonable explanation.

"The Feres doctrine holds
that active-duty members of the military cannot sue under the Federal Tort
Claims Act for harm “incident to service.” The justices wanted to ensure
that Congress would not be “burdened with private bills on behalf of military
and naval personnel.”

Egregious injustice.

"Custin and other critics
claim that the Feres doctrine strips military members of a constitutional
right to seek redress for grievances, while also allowing military hospitals
and doctors to escape scrutiny for negligent care."

Clearly, so.

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10-19-18

Hypocrisy of the Collins
nazi. The Washington Post reports:

"A conservative group
that poured more than $5 million into a campaign to defend Brett M. Kavanaugh
launched a new ad buy this week: thanking Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
for her vote supporting the nominee. “In the midst of the chaos one leader
stood out,” one of the Judicial Crisis Network’s ads says. “She did the
right thing, supporting him. Thanks Susan Collins, for being a reasonable
voice in Washington.” The ad ends with a phone number for Collins’s Washington
office. The group did not disclose the cost of its ad buy but said it would
amount to more than $100,000 for television and digital ads."

Blatant hypocrisy of the
Nazi Right:

"Judicial Crisis Network
is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization — a “dark money” group that is not
required to disclose the sources of its funding, regardless of the industry
groups or individual donors behind them. It poured at least $5.3 million
into its pro-Kavanaugh advertising campaign, much of it targeting vulnerable
Senate Democrats in red and swing states. At least $1.5 million of that
was spent defending Kavanaugh after Christine Blasey Ford went public with
her allegation of sexual assault against him. A liberal group of a similar
stripe, Demand Justice, spent at least $700,000 of a planned $5 million
campaign trying to scuttle Kavanaugh’s nomination. [Susan Collins calls
donations to her future opponent a ‘classic quid pro quo’ to extort her]
Both groups represented the intense emotion and political energy generated
by Kavanaugh’s nomination and confirmation fight, and both were subject
to heated accusations that moneyed interests were clouding the debate."

Certainly, were.
Determinedly, so.

"Collins, who was the
focus of a sustained effort by activists concerned by the prospect of Kavanaugh’s
confirmation on the court, was one of the loudest of these voices. During
a 44-minute speech on the Senate floor last week in which she announced
her support for Kavanaugh, effectively sealing his confirmation, she lambasted
special-interest groups that spent an “unprecedented amount of dark money”
to oppose him. On Friday, she did not immediately respond to a request
sent to a spokeswoman about whether she disavowed the use of “dark money”
in the campaign to support her."

Goddamned hypocrite.

"Collins’s reelection
chances in 2020 are already the subject of considerable intrigue. Her reputation
as a moderate has taken a hit because of her support of Kavanaugh, a distinctly
conservative judge who displayed a level of partisan fury at one of his
hearings that raised questions about his fitness for the Supreme Court."

She needs to be voted
out of office. Presents an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional
rights and liberties.

"A group of liberal activists
raised more than $3.5 million during the nomination fight to be given to
Collins’s eventual opponent. Susan E. Rice, a U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations and national security adviser under President Barack Obama, hinted
on Twitter that she could be interested in the seat. Rice’s family is from
Portland, Maine. This week, Collins broke party ranks to vote with Democrats
in a failed attempt to block a plan touted by the Trump administration
for short-term health plans as an alternative to Obamacare."

So what?

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